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Subject:Re: Accidental à in html ... how? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> Date:Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:33:25 -0800
Sean said it's OS X El Capitan or Mavericks, which are current. Could
be an old version of Word for Mac with a legacy font.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> It's the same error with the two characters using the same position in
> different tables. It could be that an old font is being used or that an old
> system is being used. I will not make assumptions that only current
> applications and systems are being used and that the character confusion
> problem is not the same as it was then or that it did not find its way into
> current systems. It is the same error.
>
> On 12/15/2015 10:28 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>>
>> That's way out of date. Note that in the article you link to it says
>> if the fix doesn't work for you, "it's time to upgrade to Word 2004."
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