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Quote marks
How do you convert the quote marks to straight quote marks in a saved
document as text? We have to file stories to a site that takes only text files. The quotes do convert in Word 2003 and disappear when the text file is received at the site. Is there any way to turn off "smart quotes." |
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I'm not sure I have fully understood, but
a. you can stop Word using smart quotes in the first place by unchecking the relevant option in Tools|Autocorrect|"Autoformat" and "Autoformat as you type", if that is what you want b. You could record a macro that used Edit|Replace to replace each type of smart quote with a straight quote. You would need to uncheck the Autoformat options as above before running this (or perhaps you could record that in the macro too, and switch them back on again after if that is what you want. In this case, I would - save the file in .doc format first - then save as a plain text file and re-open it, because that gets rid of things such as headers and text boxes that may not be updated correctly with a simple macro - switch off the autoformat options - do the find/replace operations - switch any required autoformat options back on Peter Jamieson "ChuckH" wrote in message ... How do you convert the quote marks to straight quote marks in a saved document as text? We have to file stories to a site that takes only text files. The quotes do convert in Word 2003 and disappear when the text file is received at the site. Is there any way to turn off "smart quotes." |
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