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SYMPTOMS
When you save a document containing text formatted with a symbol type font, for example, Wingdings, in any text format, such as Text Only, MS-DOS Text, Text with Layout, and so on, the characters formatted in the symbol font are converted to question marks. This is a test.and then you select the text and format the selection with the Wingdings font. When you save the document as a Text Only document, close and reopen the text document, the following appears in place of the original text: ?????????????? CAUSE
This behavior is by design. Because text-only documents cannot contain character-formatting information, saving the characters codes to text-only and then reopening the document may result in unpredictable formatting. WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, you can use Windows WordPad to save the Word document as a text-only document. WordPad directly converts to the underlying character codes, disregarding any document-specific font formatting:
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