[Peter T. Daniels]

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?