Hello,

I'm finding hard to record a working macro in Word2000, that would
change smart quotes "" with another smart quotes ,," (ALT+0132 and
ALT+0147 or ChrW(8220) and ChrW(8222))

Maybe someone could help me on this?

Thank you very much,

Sarunas

You may be able to do this with the Replace function, not a macro. Try
copying "" into Find what, and ,, into replace with. Try it on a couple of
quotes; if it works, use Replace all.

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Hello,

I'm finding hard to record a working macro in Word2000, that would
change smart quotes "" with another smart quotes ,," (ALT+0132 and
ALT+0147 or ChrW(8220) and ChrW(8222))

Maybe someone could help me on this?

Thank you very much,

Sarunas

The syntax is to use ^0132 or ^0147

See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


wrote:
Hello,

I'm finding hard to record a working macro in Word2000, that would
change smart quotes "" with another smart quotes ,," (ALT+0132 and
ALT+0147 or ChrW(8220) and ChrW(8222))

Maybe someone could help me on this?

Thank you very much,

Sarunas

Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything works
fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this proces using a
macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to upgrade to an Office
2003. It has no problem at this point.

Thanks

The macro recorder doesn't always work as planned - and it's no better in
Word 2003. What *exactly* do you want to replace with what?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



wrote:
Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything works
fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this proces using
a macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to upgrade to an Office
2003. It has no problem at this point.

Thanks

Well, in my region (Europe -- Lithuania) office 2003 automaticly
converts smart quotes " " with other smart quotes used in my native
language ,, " (ALT+0132 and ALT+0147).
So all I need to do, is to record a macro, that would search a first
quote " and would replace it with ,, , then search for closing quote
in an sentence and replace it with " (closing quotes are different when
using combination ALT+0147).
And that would be all the macro should be able to do.
Because when you have 100 of word pages with qoutes like this "",
there's a waste of time in finding and replacing them using Replace
dialog. That's why I need a macro.

Sarunas

Graham Mayor wrote:
The macro recorder doesn't always work as planned - and it's no better in
Word 2003. What *exactly* do you want to replace with what?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



wrote:
Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything works
fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this proces using
a macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to upgrade to an Office
2003. It has no problem at this point.

Thanks

Unless I have completely misunderstood your requirement.

You can stop Word converting ordinary quotes to smart quotes at tools
autocorrect options autoformat as you type.

alternatively

You can autoformat and insert your country's smart quote settings by tools
autocorrect options autoformat and set the smart quote preference. You
don't need a macro to do that. If however the autoformatting inserts the
wrong style of smart quote, then you can replace those by searching for eg
^0132


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Sarunas wrote:
Well, in my region (Europe -- Lithuania) office 2003 automaticly
converts smart quotes " " with other smart quotes used in my native
language ,, " (ALT+0132 and ALT+0147).
So all I need to do, is to record a macro, that would search a first
quote " and would replace it with ,, , then search for closing quote
in an sentence and replace it with " (closing quotes are different
when using combination ALT+0147).
And that would be all the macro should be able to do.
Because when you have 100 of word pages with qoutes like this "",
there's a waste of time in finding and replacing them using Replace
dialog. That's why I need a macro.

Sarunas

Graham Mayor wrote:
The macro recorder doesn't always work as planned - and it's no
better in Word 2003. What *exactly* do you want to replace with what?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



wrote:
Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything
works fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this
proces using a macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to
upgrade to an Office 2003. It has no problem at this point.

Thanks