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Ms. Toad

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7. It isn't even the entire quote.

Fri Aug 1, 2025, 06:31 PM

Aug 1

It is from the initial quote marks to the word "the"

If you leave the quotes and remove the word the - no error.
If you remove the initial quote mark - no error
If you remove the word "subject" or "to" - but leave the initial quote and the word "the" - no error

. . . and now between starting to type this post, playing around removing internal words, and retesting everything - it suddenly doesn't give an error.

In the last 10 minutes I literally checked the phrase - got an error, ran a check to make sure of everything in the three "if" statements above, then retyped the phrase, and now it works without error.

(Sorry about the need to OCR it - I wasn't being cagey, I just couldn't get it to post as text)

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I've stumbled across a strange problem posting a specific block of text. [View all] Ms. Toad Aug 1 OP

Try retyping the offending text by hand. usonian Aug 1 #1

I retyped it multiple times. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #3

Will try on the computer. usonian Aug 1 #5

Correct - Ms. Toad Aug 1 #10

OK - I replaced the double quote with 2 single quotes and it seems to work...wonder why? walkingman Aug 1 #2

"smart" quotes? usonian Aug 1 #4

Cool - never heard the term "smart" quotes - thank you. walkingman Aug 1 #6

They point in different directions, unlike "" usonian Aug 1 #9

I think I have to set the curly quote conversion in Word. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #13

It isn't even the entire quote. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #7

It's really bizarre. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #11

Test usonian Aug 1 #8

It's actually even narrower than what you have highlighted. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #12