Hi guys and girls.



I have an odd thing I need to do.

Basically I have a massive text where the author has used 'quote 1' 'quote 2' 'quote 3' etc. The publisher needs "quote 1" "quote 2" etc, etc.

I can find everything with '*' and wildcard enables. However, I can't replace with "*", as that is what it gets replaced with, i.e. "*".

In other words, I need to replace a caharcter at the beginning and end, but leave the text inbetween unchanged, said text being different each time.

I've tried various \ escape strings in the replace, but it always either falls over or messes up.

Anyone know?

I'm sure it's possible!

A Find/Replace can be used, but you'll need to do it interactively so as to not confuse single closing quotes and apostrophes:
Find = '
Replace = "

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Paul Edstein
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