You don't need the QUOTE field at all if you use single quotes, and they
don't require backslashes. That is, instead of using double quotes with a
backslash (which often doesn't work for the closing one, anyway, use two
single quotes instead.

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"Bob S" wrote in message
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What am I missing here? The sequence I need here (which I admit is not
instantly apparent from the text-only newsgroup posting) is

straight double quote
backslash
opening curly double quote
straight double quote

The straight quotes are needed for the QUOTE field code, the curly
quote is ultimately part of the quoted text.

With automatic curly quotes enabled, the way I get it is

double quote
^z to undo curliness
backslash
space
double quote - automatically becomes opening curly quote; without the
space it becomes a closing curly qoute instead
delete the space
double quote
^z to undo curliness

How do shortcuts for single quotes ease this process?

Bob S



On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:47:35 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

Also note that to get the opening
quotes in the first QUOTE field, I typed "\ "" and then deleted the
space character.

Not necessary if you use the keyboard shortcuts to insert these
directly:\

Ctrl+`, ` = opening single quote
Ctrl+', ' = closing single quote or apostrophe


One scheme is to use the QUOTE field to produce the correct quotes.
For example:

{ IF Something "Say { QUOTE "\"" }cheese!{ QUOTE "\"" }" "No!" }

It is inordinately difficult to get this to work. The only way that I
could get the QUOTE fields correct was to use CTRL+F9 to get the
brackets and type directly. Using the Insert | Field dialog produced
straight quotes not curly quotes. Also note that to get the opening
quotes in the first QUOTE field, I typed "\ "" and then deleted the
space character.