Okay. So the problem is this: When EDITING an item that was ORIGINALLY written and pasted from MSWord, and often from WORDPAD, errors such as these show up in the item:
I hanker for a hunka cheese oh please cheese don’t you know? ‘aint that good enough for you cheeseeeee pleaseeee can’t not want?
In addition, you may find that apostrophes are replaced with question marks.
Upon FURTHER analysis (cause I just have to know, you know?) I have found that:
Mozilla browser's COMPOSER will do the same as Word. So it's useless here.
From Shadowspawn: The reason this happens is that MSWord uses embedded codes to do things like bold, italics, punctuation. I have also found a really neat tool called ieSpell that is inserted into your browser so that you can fill in fields and spell check them with out the need to copy and paste. Here is the link for it www.iespell.com/ unfortunately it’s only for IE (Internet Explorer). Thank you for your help; invaluable!
The only way to fix this is to take your writing from Word, paste it into NOTEPAD, SAVE it in Notepad, reopen it, THEN paste THAT into your new item to be created on All Poetry. OR, to completely bypass this problem, you can try using RICH Text Formatting available from Internet Explorer only (available for Gold memberships only). I was surprised to NOT find these errors while using IE with AP's RICH Text Formatting option.
What I was wondering was knowing the default font herein, at All Poetry, can you not then reformat the text IN Word, then paste it here. Probably. The options are ASCII, Unicode, etc. so if this is the case and Kevin tells me what font is used here for new items, then that's always an option to fix this problem on the USER end. He did let me know this is a known problem with Microsoft and its incompatibility with All Poetry in SOME instances. Not all. Not a problem if we know how to fix it before it becomes a problem which is why I am writing this. Poor newbies!
I happened to also try updating my MS Office 2003 with all current updates and unfortunately, it didn't make any difference.
Ah. I can rest easier knowing how to stop this from happening.
In the meantime, if you get these errors, go to the item and click on EDIT, then change nothing and hit SUBMIT. Usually the errors will disappear until you EDIT it again... saves the hassle of REWRITING all the stinkin errors. Lol. If you do it enough, it will go back to normal. Try it. I dare ya. Just EDIT and SUBMIT for a while. It's fun 
Ain't techieland great? I'd never want to do what Kevin has to do on a daily basis. In the grand scheme of things, this is merely an annoyance; frustrating to be sure. However, PREVENTION IS KEY. So go. Prevent. Dang MS
Adding your comment:
I use Mozilla I'm not completely under Gates' thumb 
And you know how untechie I really am but oh these things do make me itch for solutions.
I don't always have the brain cells needed but when I want an answer, this is usually the solution, seek and destroy as Yem says. Thanks for reading this not your normal story or poem ha. 
Not used to notepad. It's find for poetry, but I write a lot of essays that aren't shown here on AP. And long winded posts on techical medical stuff so not having an automatic spell and grammar checker hits me hard. Well, good thing I don't post all that here right [chuckles] You're the best 
