Little text gremlins with pointy hats in Dreamweaver!

Ola! You all were such a help with an advanced PS issue, that I'm hoping the magic is still alive
I am just about finished with a site that was created with PS, and Fireworks. I'm using Dreamweaver to edit etc. and upload, BUT...the text has been cut and pasted (from word docs), and then font tweaked, into the Dreamweaver html, and when I view them in the browser window, I'm getting these little E^ gremmies all over the place (I've already checked to make sure it's not left over punctuation from the word doc text, and I can't see anything in the html that shows as "extra".
Is it possible that I've done something in the sizing of tables that messes about with the text..or...? :confused:

It's because of pasting from the Word document. You'll always have trouble pasting anything from Word into HTML. Big surprise.

You can either replace all of the symbols manually, or re-save the Word document as a plaintext format like .txt or .rtf before you paste it into Dreamweaver.

ackkk! I was thinking that was the culprit, but hoping I didn't have to re-do the text...although if I hadn't been LAZY in the first place, and just typed it in originally....wellll y'know
Thank you~.... again, the forum has been a huge help,very nice. I hope I'm able to contribute eventually...

There are some utilities that may clean it up. Dreamweaver even has a built-in "text clean up" or something. Maybe even something to specifically convert something from Word. I can't remember. Might search the Help files for it though.

yes, i usually just copy paste right into notepad, and then recopy and paste the plain text..... no extra saving needed!