You have to check carefully for every curly single- and double-quote, em and en dash, ellipsis, and other dodgy characters, and replace them with boring but safe equivalents from your keyboard. Going via Notepad doesn't strip them out. Stuart > I carefully cut and pasted in and out of Notepad to avoid this kind of > nonsense. > > Any hints would be appreciated. > _____________ > Bob Trussler ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************