problem with automatic formatting on quotation marks

[Bobosmite]

Here's my problem: I've got a large document that's been pasted together from multiple sources. I did a <select all> and changed the font to Adobe Garamond Pro. It looks great, but in some places it automatically formats the open and close quotation marks mixed up. In other places it displays non-directional quotation marks like this: "quotation". I've manually corrected most of the document with find/replace, but I can't automatically <replace all> because it tries to for the wrong quotation mark...like it's confused. For example, if there is a dash before the quotation mark, it automatically tries to use another open-quotation mark.

Looking at the font table, it seems like Word manipulates the font graphic...rotating and curving it based on whether it thinks it's an open or close quotation.

Is there some kind of grammar/spell check rule that can find wrong or orphaned quotation marks?

[Steve_D]

Find and replace should work. There shouldn't be any character hard up against an opening quote. If you have a dash before it, there should be a space, e.g. -- "like this". Without the space (e.g. --"like this"), Word might mistake it for a closing quote.

If you fix this, then replace all " with ", you should get smart (curly) quotes throughout.

[Bobosmite]

Originally Posted by Steve_D

Find and replace should work. There shouldn't be any character hard up against an opening quote. If you have a dash before it, there should be a space, e.g. -- "like this". Without the space (e.g. --"like this"), Word might mistake it for a closing quote.

If you fix this, then replace all " with ", you should get smart (curly) quotes throughout.

Find/Replace did work on most of the quotation marks. This doc is heavy with conversation that ends with trailing or cut off dialog. Also, I'm sure the text was run through several grammar/spell checkers by other sources. These are two examples that I've been able to manually fix by typing quotation marks until Word gives me the right mark. Then I delete the other marks. It's kind of like trying to overpower the auto-correct feature when it keeps trying to capitalize something you want in lower case.

example 1: "Quotation -- " Next sentence.
example 2: "Quotation ... " Next sentence.

I wouldn't mind turning it off if possible and just go with the straight marks.

[Steve_D]

You can, of course, insert opening or closing quote marks using Insert, Symbol, using the 'normal text' set. That way they should stay curling the right way.