Well, damn, I never looked closely but in the word program I use with WPS the italicised 'a' is also radically different from the non. At least to my eye. Still, iT's the only letter that is that different in nature. I can live with that. I'll have to research ANSI ALT codes, or whatever else further about curly quote marks. I've been copying and pasting and iT's a major pain. As Donald Sutherland might say, "I only drive tanks. I don't know what makes 'em work."