Re: Quotes in Title of the project Bob Beattie 21 Jan 2009 17:11 EST
This may be related to how Word treats smart quotes vs curly quotes. What you describe has happened to me when I was making web pages. Quotes turned into ???. In Word you have to look under tools and then in the autoformat. Change curly quotes to straight quotes and vice versa Microsoft Word automatically changes straight quotation marks ( ' or " ) to curly (smart or typographer's) quotes as you type. To turn this feature on or off: On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab. Under Replace as you type, select or clear the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box. Note You can find and replace all instances of single or double curly quotes with straight quotes in your document. To do this, clear the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box on the AutoFormat As You Type tab. On the Edit menu, click Replace. In both the Find what and Replace with boxes, type ' or ", and then click Find Next or Replace All. To replace all straight quotes with curly quotes, select the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box, and repeat the find and replace procedure. Hope this is close to helping you. Don't know about the dash issue. Bob ------------------------------ Robert Beattie On Jan 21, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Vincelli, Diana wrote: There is something about g.g that turns regular punctuation into question marks. The Help Desk knows all about it apparently. I had this problem in a summary statement, the quotation marks turned into ?? so now I tell PIs no punctuation other than periods and commas! Someone else probably remembers better than I, but I think if you cut and paste you are more likely to have errors than if you type directly. Good luck! Diana Thompson Vincelli Director of Grant Support Office of Foundation, Corporate & Government Relations G-14 Maryland Hall University of Richmond, VA 23173 804.289.8005; fax 804.289-8943 xxxxxx@richmond.edu http://grants.richmond.edu Please consider the environment before printing this email -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Zoya Hamilton Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:27 PM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: [RESADM-L] Descriptive Title of the project I submitted a proposal to NIH today, and it's title is not displayed properly in Commons. I want to fix it and resubmit, but when I look at the submitted application the title looks fine. This is the title in the application (cover page item 11): WordWord-Word Word - Word. This is how it is displayed in Commons: WordWord???Word - Word. The dash is not the double dash. The only irregularity with the format that I can think of is no spaces on both sides of the dash. Any insights? How do I get rid of the three question marks? Thanks very much. -- Zoya Hamilton, CRA Sr. Associate Director, Research Administration Office of the Vice Provost Tufts University Tel (617) 636-6709 Fax (617) 636-2917 http://www.tufts.edu/central/ ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================