Using Word to write articles

Lettering seems to rewrite itself

[bostons4u]

I write all my article in MW format, but when I submit the article to someone through email the lettering changes. Can any one tell me why and how to avoid it? Example

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[trillianjedi]

Could be rich text thing getting mis-transcribed. Do you need the rich text format, or could you save the Word file in plain text?

[bostons4u]

I don't know if word allows you to save in a plain. I will check and see.

[Beagle]

Word should allow you to save in plain text.

If there are any special characters involved, using the "Insert Symbol" function to insert them often leads to them being changed when they're sent electronically. Being an old-timer, I use ASCII code to insert them, but I'm sure there are more up-to-date methods. (If you end up with little empty boxes, this is probably the cause.)

[masterjack]

Run your piece through something like notepad first to strip it of formatting

[malachite]

You're not using a Mac, are you? I used to have this problem when I used a PC if someone emailed me a word doc that was generated on a Mac. It came out in gibberish on the PC :o

The solution was to ensure the document was actually called example dot DOC, manually inserting the ".doc" as for some reason, it wasn't automatically included and the PC couldn't read it properly.