>Dear Barbara,
> Could you tell me why my postings occasionally have unintended line
>breaks in the middle of words. Also, when I use quotations marks they do not
>show up.
> In the following posting there are unintended breaks in the fourth line
>in the 20th line , in the 41 st line, an unintended space break in the 442nd
>line , and an unintended break in the 52nd line.
> I do my messages in Microsoft Word and transfer it via the clipboard in
t
>o
>my Compu-Serve - Create Mail.
> ?????????
Whever you prepare messages in a program other than the one intended for sending
it, you
will find incompatabilities. I used to do the same thing with America Online.
Here are
a couple tips.
Use a fixed-spaced font like Courier and type a line of 80-characters like th
is one:
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
Look at your Microsoft Word ruler and notice where the last character lines up.
(You
might have to use a smaller font size to get all the characters to appear on one
-line)
Finally, when you type your messages, make sure you hit return at the end of eac
h
*before* you get to that point on your ruler.
About the quotation marks. You are probably using curly quotes where the quotat
ion
marks slant in a particular direction. You can temporarily disable MS Word's us
e of
curly quotes by setting up a tool-bar button for that purpose.
Hope this helps,
Jeff
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