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I made our website for work. My boss and I have identical Dell computers at work. SO and I have different, but identical to each other computers at home. Other people at both my work and his have various computers.
When my boss looks at our web site, any contraction ' appears as =
On every other computer I've looked at, it looks fine.
He wants me to "fix it".
I don't have a clue what to fix. As far as I can tell, it's fine! He sometimes uses earthlink, so I looked at it through both AOL and Opera on his computer - it still is funky, but on my home computer with either of those and IE, it's fine. Fine on everybody else's in the office too.
Does he have "gremlins" or is there something I can do?????
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My first guess is it is a "text vs. html" view of an e-mail document...
If this =' change only happens in Outlook/GroupWise/OE or some other software where he reads e-mail, then I would check the settings of that particular piece of software for some personal preference that is different from yours... like a font type or reading in text vs. in html... (I read my emails in text only so I see lots of "odd" stuff like this. I just ignore it, knowing that text is "safer" for my computer... It is worth the trade-off for me.)
If this =' change happens throughout most of the computer screens (like in all email programs and on a desktop icon name):
You might check your boss' computer for these simple things:
1) Control Panel/Regional Settings to verify that it is set to Language: English (US)
2) Control Panel/Fonts to verify that his ARIAL.TTF file has an "old" date (indicating that his file probably did not get overlaid with a "new" version recently -- if this is a new problem)
others might have better questions/answers... best of luck...
gw4m
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GW4M - it happens only when he looks at our web page. Not email (or other web pages...at least none that I've seen).
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How was the web site written? IE - FrontPage, Dreamweaver, by hand, etc...
If it's a FrontPage web site (and even if it's not), you may want to try and post this question over here: http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/
There's a pretty darn smart group over there!
Unfortunately, that's about all the help I can muster on this one!
Cheers, and good luck!
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The website was done in Word, using the Webpage Wizard. Thanks for the link!
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This has to be a font problem on his computer. You could "shut off" the font in his IE and see if the apostrophe shows correctly. If it does, the font used for the web page is not installed on his computer, and it is substituting one that doesn't match, hence the equal sign.
Tools/Internet Options/General Tab/Accessibility/and check the box for Ignore Font Styles Specified on Web Pages
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have you tried using
'
or
’
or
’
instead of the ' sign
what does the = sign look like if you use it on his computer
do you know what DTD you arre using (this is probably the first line in the code)
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Ah - more to double check! Thanks so much...