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I'm using OpenOffice, saving my files as a Word file, and noticed that little boxes are appearing where the start quotation mark and first letter of the word should be. The ending quotation mark gets erased as well. So, why is this happening, and how do I stop it? Should I save the files as the default ODT? Use a different word proccessor? My computer didn't come with anything, or I would. Copy-pasting the text into word also copies the boxes.