Changing quote marks from curved to straight?

[mysterywriter]

Okay, yeah, I'm a dinosaur. I'm updating my website and I'm including some text from my new novels. I write in Times New Roman per most publisher requirements and so my quote marks are "curved" with the slant and style different from the old "plain straight" quotes.



Which is fine, but if I copy and paste a passage into raw ascii text, the curvy quotes are misinterpreted and are turned into question marks. So my sentence looks like this:

I asked her, ?What time did he phone??

Duh.

So of course I've selected my entry and saved it in a new doc, so I can edit it via HTML and add the paragraph marks and so on. Fine and dandy.

How do I edit my selection so that I replace the curvy quotes with old style straight quotes so that the quotes are properly copied into plain ascii?

I'm using Word 2013. Thanks!

[mysterywriter]

Found the way! Saved the doc from Word as a plain text file and all the intended punctuation came across fine.

When I simply did a copy/paste into an ascii editor, apostrophes, dashes, and quotes got converted to question marks.

Now it's fine.

[gmayor]

You can turn off the smart quotes while writing from File > Options > Proofing > Autocorrect Options > Autoformat As You Type.
and you can use the macro at http://www.gmayor.com/word_vba_examples_4.htm to convert straight quotes to smart quotes and vice versa.