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An increase in PERIS™ help tickets over the last few weeks has been related to special characters (
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other SmartForm fields by pasting from other documents. When a special character is entered, you will receive an error message (Figure 1) and be unable to proceed with the proposal until the special character is removed or replaced.</div>
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Figure 1. Special Character Error</div>
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