To help the representation of pasting special characters on our pages, especially from Microsoft Word, please follow these steps to sanitize the data.

  1. Once your editing in Word is complete, choose File->Save As...
  2. Choose from the format drop-menu the option 'Plain Text (*.txt)'
  3. Save the file to a known location, your desktop for example
  4. Before the file saves, a dialog box will appear asking you about encoding: Choose 'other encoding'. Select UTF-8
  5. Then make sure you check the 'Allow Character Substitution' box.
  6. You can now cut and paste from Microsoft Word into our sites pages safely.