peculiar problem

[OliviaHoff]

Lately my articles have been rejected because strange characters appear after the punctuation marks. I am not doing anything differently. I've sent these files to myself as email both as attachments and in the body of the message and they look fine to me. I've saved them in rtf and txt. Can't do doc files because I use appleworks. This started happening recently. Has anyone else had this problem? Could it be Firefox? Maybe I should try Safari....

[Celeste Stewart]

I've been noticing problems with quotation marks and apostrophes lately when copying and pasting into the summaries. Also the new auto title feature does weird things to apostrophes -- it capitalizes the following 's' as in: It'S a Small World.

[Ed]

Hi Olivia,

I know this is a strange problem and wish I could give you a definite answer about how to fix the problem. Can you try something similar to this suggestion given to another author in the following thread?:
http://www.constant-content.com/forum/v ... 12&t=14329

Specifically:
(Nichewriter)Now I submit articles in .doc. I use OpenOffice Writer and I first save my articles in 12pt Times New Roman in .odt format. Then when I'm done, I save it as .doc (97) and strip out all the formatting. Before I upload to CC, I copy the whole thing in Notepad just to make sure there aren't any weird characters in there. I then copy and paste the whole thing back in OpenOffice and save. I've never had an article get rejected due to formatting issues this way.

Maybe someone else will have another suggestion based upon your particular circumstances.

Thanks,
Ed

PS - Support has been notified about the 'S problem. Thanks to all who have pointed it out.