I think the "dash" issue can be resolved on the same AutoCorrect option
menu Bob points to -- look for the option for replacing hyphens with a
dash, and uncheck it.
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Molly Daniel
Grants Specialist
Planning Department
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center
Mattoon, IL 61938
voice 217-258-2195, fax 258-4135
email: xxxxxx@sblhs.org
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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Bob Beattie
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:11 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Quotes in Title of the project
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
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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
P 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/
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