I’m in a band, and we routinely send out E-mails to a mailing list we collect to inform people of upcoming shows. The problem I’m having is that for some reason, the computer adds a back-slash (/) before any apostrophe or quotation marks in the mailing. For example, here’s what part of one of our old mailings looks like:
We’ll send out more details as the show-date approaches.
I’ve tried doing it in MSWord with and without the smart quotes on, and it doesn’t seem to matter. Any ideas???