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Quote Marks & Apostrophes in Messages
Messages I receive from certain sources often have weird symbols in place of the quotation marks or apostrophes the writer intended. Is there something I can do about this? I notice that the same message on a different computer will have the ...
Message posted on the April 26th, 2009 - 12:23 PM ET
SQL strings with quotation marks or apostrophes trouble!
I'm trying to write an SQL statement where one or more field entries include strings with quotations mark. for instance: 20" Tube The quotation mark translates to "inches", and needs to be stored in the field. or in another case ...
Message posted on the December 10th, 2009 - 8:37 PM ET
Foolproof Query on Quote and Apostrophe Text?
I always back away from these stupid delimiter problems by replacing quotes and apostrophes with upper-ascii characters that look like them (chr$(146) and chr$(148), for example). But I'm sick of the CPU drag that all the replacing causes. So, I'm ...
Message posted on the May 13th, 2011 - 2:28 AM ET
Intermittent problem in data transfer MSAccess to Oracle using VB
I created a small executable which runs 5 days a week as a scheduled task. It retrieves data from a MSAccess database and writes to an Oracle database. I write to a log file to make sure the process runs to completion. It worked fine for about two ...
Message posted on the July 26th, 2010 - 4:05 PM ET
Converting .doc file to .txt file
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel What is the best way to save a doc file as a text file so that all the characters will be read correctly in html? I often am giving a .doc file with content to be put into an ...
Message posted on the May 13th, 2009 - 12:00 PM ET
Vista Home Premium 64-bit O/S & "Performance" Issues
I would appreciate hearing back from anyone who has had similar experiences to the following and what the solution is: I got a new desktop with Vista Home Premium 64-bit O/S installed on it with Office 2007. I was formerly using on a laptop Office ...
Message posted on the May 25th, 2009 - 9:34 PM ET
Subform problem with LinkMasterFields
I recently changed my main form's Recordsource from the table name, tblJob, to a query: SELECT tblJob.*, tblJob.tYear, tblJob.tIDJob FROM tblJob ORDER BY tblJob.tYear DESC , tblJob.tIDJob DESC; Now, when attempting to add a new record on the ...
Message posted on the March 17th, 2009 - 1:18 PM ET
Why does Word change characters when sending in HTML
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I do a monthly newsletter - it looks fabulous in Word and yet - when I send it off - it changes the various symbols & characters into something else, i.e. quote marks in ...
Message posted on the March 3rd, 2009 - 2:59 PM ET
Standard punctuation turns to combinations of symbols
Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel Recently when I have opened some Word 2004 files common punctuation marks . . . em's, single quote, apostrophes . . . have become strange combinations of bullets, percent ...
Message posted on the January 14th, 2010 - 11:51 AM ET
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