Thanks, Gerald. Yes, I do turn off smart quotes when I'm validating something that has the quotation marks turned the wrong way. I don't know what causes that, but rather than individually turning them around, I just turn off smart quotes and then do a global replace. smile Cindy R > Since you are validating in Word, you can probably > turn off Smart Quotes > somewhere in the options to prevent Word from trying > to decide which of the > other characters to use and substituting it for the > generic single quote > which Pratik is referring to. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.