What that looks like is the "HTML" source code for a MIcrosoft Word Web Doc...
Has the word.doc you e-mailed been opened by someone else? Sounds like HTML "style" stuff occurring. Were your documents attachments or embedded into your email program?
Um, what format are you saving in?
If you're saving it in text or rtf or html, then Word could be putting in weird things.
Also, check your settings (Tools | Options on the menu) and make sure you don't have 'Nonprinting characters' selected on the 'View' tab.
FWIW, make sure that you have the latest virus scan updates. If you don't have it or don't feel like paying for one, go to
Grisoft and click on the free AVG software on the left hand side.
You could have a little macro virus.
Also, make sure windows is patched with the latest updates.
I don't want it to sound like I think your system is buggy, but barring a formatting error, most likely there's something funky.
Regards.
I think it's a quotation mark in one of the HTML versions.