Hello Bobosmite,
I just did not get your question. You need to get rid of all single quotation marks or get rid of some specific one?
The thing is that in simple find and replace field you can into some extend use wildcards but I am not sure whether such logical operators as you have stated would work. So that is why I need you to exactly define what you want to get rid of and what you want to have preserved in your document.
Mike
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