Dec
05
2005

Clean or Fix Word’s Funky Characters

Word tends to autocorrect and insert special characters that look good, but don’t work when put on a web page. They end up looking like this: ‘ “testâ€?.

If you write your blog posts in word and then paste them into your blog, you’ll often times get those funky characters. Here is an explanation as to why it does this and how to avoid it.

To avoid having to spend time searching and replacing numerous word documents I needed to add to the web, I wrote a tool that does it for me. Here it is: Clean Word’s Funky Characters.

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Written by Tom in: Random,Uncategorized |

2 Comments »

  • mike

    nice idea

    pity it does not work

    Comment | February 22, 2008
  • Anonymous

    (\___/)
    (=’.'=)
    (“)_(“)

    Comment | October 19, 2008

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