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OL98: Smart Quotes May Not Display Correctly


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Outlook 98

Symptoms

Quotation marks do not display correctly. They appear as garbled text or as question marks.

Cause

You are using Microsoft Word 97 as your e-mail editor with Smart Quotes enabled. The receiving e-mail client does not support the Windows code page.

Resolution

To display the quotation marks correctly, choose one of the following:

  • Disable the Smart Quotes feature in Word.
  • Do not use Word as your e-mail editor.

For more information on Word AutoFormat, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q139564 WD97: How to Disable Word AutoFormat Features

To disable Word as your e-mail editor follow these steps:

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
  2. On the Mail Format tab, in the section "Send in this message format," click to select Microsoft Outlook Rich Text from the list.

 

   
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