Word tends to autocorrect and insert special characters that look good, but don’t work when put on a web page. They end up looking like this: ‘ “test�?.

If you write your blog posts in word and then paste them into your blog, you’ll often times get those funky characters. Here is an explanation as to why it does this and how to avoid it.

To avoid having to spend time searching and replacing numerous word documents I needed to add to the web, I wrote a tool that does it for me. Here it is: Clean Word’s Funky Characters.