Find and replace surely will work!
Turn off the autoformat while you type option to substitute smart quotes
then replace
[^0145^0146]
with
^039
Check the Use wildcards box.
See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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jezzica85 wrote:
Hi,
Thank you, I knew about the different ascii codes and how to
distinguish them, I guess I wasn't clear enough. What I need to do is
figure out a way to insert the apostrophe symbol in a Word document,
not the closing quote, without typing everything first and then
replacing them all, so my program can distinguish them later. My
document is really long and it would be a real pain to go through it
manually and replace all the single quotes with apostrophes one at a
time. I already tried find and replace, and it doesn't work.

"lallous" wrote:

Hello

I noticed that those curly quotes have ASCII codes: 0x93 and 0x94.
However, if you try to insert them manually as: ALT+147 or ALT+148 in
notepad, they don't work!

So perhaps your Java program can look for 0x93 and 0x94 characters
and replace them with 0x22 which is the normal double quote.

HTH,
Elias
"jezzica85" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I'm writing a Java program that takes a text file I made from a Word
document, and I need to be able to distinguish between apostrophes
and single
closing quotes. I've looked up the two symbols in Word, and they're
definitely different, so I tried making a shortcut key to always
insert an apostrophe, but whenever I do it it still inserts the
same character for both
apostrophes and closing quotes. Is there a way to insert an
apostrophe automatically so it looks like the straight mark it's
supposed to be in the
symbols, instead of the curly closing quote?
Thanks!
jezzica85