...if you like to cut-and-paste the material into a word-processing program, then cut-and-paste it back into a message field, please don't. Smart-quotes don't show up well on Web browsers, which results in a lot of strange characters being strewn about the MiSTing.
If you've the need for a good, solid word-processing program that works in plain text, try EditPad. Do a Google search for it.