Microsoft Word uses "smart punctuation" that is a pain in the backside for people dropping documents into other software, such as from Word into InDesign (used to be PageMaker) from Adobe. I drop out all of Word's "smart" things like curly quotes, fake ellipsis, the fractions that were automatically reduced to small text, their m- or n-dash, etc. Then I save a file as rich text and that is what is loaded to InDesign. In Microsoft computers "Wordpad" is an RTF program. If you see a rich text mode instead of the fancy default mode and you should be okay. Assuming there are similar programs in the Mac world.