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Default Quotation marks

Okay, these are a different matter and are caused by having the wrong
language (perhaps German) applied to the text.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Frustrated College Student Abroad" Frustrated College Student
wrote in message
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I was having this problem just now and have chosen to use the straight
quotation marks but thought I'd copy paste an example of the issue I'm
having
clarify. I made sure there are no unclosed quotations elsewhere in the
text
so I have no clue why it is looking like this... see below.


I am writing a sentence and now "I want to quote something" but obviously
these quotes don't look correct!


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

"Upside-down" is a subjective description. Quotation marks vary depending
on
font, but ordinarily the closing quote character will be a 180-degree
rotation of the opening quote character (rotated, not flipped
horizontally).

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"Mary jane" wrote in message
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It is amazing how many posts relate to this reversed curly quote issue.
Straight quotes are an answer yes, but why can't you use curly quotes
and
have them come out correctly? No one seems to be able to solve this

riddle,
maybe an issue to send to Microsoft for programming?

"JulieMae" wrote:

When I type quotation marks using microsoft word, they come out curly

and the
right quotation mark is upside down. I want regular straight
quotation

marks.
How do I get them? I want them to look like this " " but they
don't.

They
come out different as I said above. What can I do to rectify this?

Thanks,
JulieMae