# Feedback please...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedback-please/94736>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 22, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedback-please/94736 "2001-11-22T06:15:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedback-please/94736/21 "2001-11-26T02:47:07Z")

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Hmmm…everything looks fine. Second section had curley-quotes. Perhaps IE is smart enough to handle?

Will try in Netscape (blech)

Sorry, still no explanation as to why talking like Rorschach.

See next try.

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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedback-please/94736/22 "2001-11-26T02:53:53Z")

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can’t, won’t, don’t, shouldn’t, musn’t, ain’t

## “I have no **idea** how Miz LaRue’s stockings got into the back seat of my limosine!” the Senator protested

shan?t musn?t couldn?t mighn?t

?My panties! The chimp has my panties!? Ms LaRue cried

Prev. attempt was IE 6.0, trying in Netscape (blech) 6.0. Top selection with senator has straight quotes, bottom with Ms LaRue and the Chimp, curly quotes. They show up in reply box…

previewing…

_ **AH-HA!** _ IN Preview, post all SNAFU, and looking at post in message box, post has become SNAFU!

Culprit is a combination of Netscape (blech) AND curly quotes!

Thank you. This has been a presentation of Mystery Tech Theater 3000. If you enjoyed this post, no applause, please, just throw nickles. And please let your moderators and admins know that you would like to see more Fenris posts from Mystery Tech Theater 3000.

Fenris

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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedback-please/94736/23 "2001-11-26T02:57:24Z")

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All kidding aside, **Astro** , if you must use (blech) Netscape, what you’ll need to do is go to Word, chose the menu option TOOLS. Find the AUTOCORRECT choice. Left-click it. Go to the tab marked “AutoFormat”. About 1/2 way down on my version (Office 2k) is an option that says:

“straight quotes” with “smart quotes”

Just uncheck the box, and you should be good to go!

Fenris

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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feedback-please/94736/24 "2001-11-26T03:02:41Z")

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Another bit of Netscape (blech!) weirdness. On the post before last (the “AH-HA!” post, everything from the “AH-HA” onward is in _italics_, while viewing the same post in IE, it’s fine.

I’m guessing it has to do with the order I did the close brackets (I’m bad about not putting them in the right order:  
IE:

I B U … B I U

rather than

I B U … U B I

Still, it’s weird that Netscape can’t cope with that

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