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canaday
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I have been having a little trouble with this for years but I always worked around it. When I do a copy and paste from my computer to post a review, when I do a preview a lot of my letters and punctuation show up as boxes. Apparently, the Cafe's formatting does like my computer. Like I said, I have put up with some before but today was so bad I was unable to post a new review. Anyone have any idea what is going on and how do I get around it> Thanks.

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DJG
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Sounds like the font you may be pasting. From your computer to The Cafe, right?
Jerry Hornak
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Some word processors have hidden formatting codes that don't transfer well when used elsewhere.

When it happens to me, I'll paste it into a basic text editor, like Notepad, for a moment. That strips those codes out. Then I'll highlight and copy the text file and paste *that* into my comment.

It's worth a try.
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Thomas Henry
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Hey Jerry,

That's exactly what I've always done (except in Linux with a different text editor), and it's always worked for me.

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