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On Wednesday, 22 July 2020 14:40:59 UTC+3, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 7:15:23 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 July 2020 14:07:54 UTC+3, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
If the straight-quotes you want to keep are all in a particular context
-- such as if they're foot-and-inch markers -- you could put that context
into your Find box using Wild Cards, replace them with something else (in
this example they should be primes and not quotation marks anyway), and
then if necessary repeat the process searching for the temporary replace-
ment character, Replace with the quote marks with "Use curly quotes"
turned off.

If that's not a possibility, then you might have to go through and
click Replace for every example (or not).

I know this is years and years later - but I'm hoping you can help anyway. This works great because I have some documents that need to convert to smart quotes, but the rest of the time I need straight quotes. Is there a way to toggle back the autocorrect as you type option to being not selected for smart quotes after running the macro? i.e., toggle back the selection of smart quotes to not selected as it was before the macro ran?

Thanks for getting back to me so unexpectedly quick! I proofread documents. One client wants smart quotes, but all my other clients prefer straight quotes. I can use this macro with the autocorrect option off for smart quotes, which is what I need 90% of the time. But if I use it for the one client, then the option is set to "use smart quotes" by the macro. How can I toggle it back within the macro to setting the autocorrect option off again?

Don't use the macro.

Do it the way I explained in 2009 -- still works.

If I understand the method without the macro correctly, I need to:
1. Set the autocorrect option to use smart quotes
2. Find and replace double quotes
3. Find and replace single quotes/apostrophes
4. Set autocorrect back to not use smart quotes after I'm done with that particular client's documents

I was looking for a macro to do it in the interest of 1, saving time, and 2, making sure I don't forget the last step of changing back the autocorrect in step 4 because then I'll potentially be doing find&replace for every document unnecessarily.