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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.
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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.
05-26-2010, 06:05 PM
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