On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 19:49 -0400, CodeHeads wrote: > Hello all, > > I wrote a document in OpenOffice Writer and there are weird characters > when someone else views the document with M$ word. > > Is there a setting that I am missing?? > It is set to english. ---- just a guess...that open office is automatically converting a dash to em-dash, bullets, etc. Craig