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Customizable smart quotes
Both Word and PowerPoint have the ability to automatically convert straight
quotes to smart quotes. In English, there is only one way to perform the conversion: The opening quotes should look like a small 66 at the top of the line, and the closing quotes should look like a small 99 at the top of the line. But in other languages, several different quote styles are possible. In Danish, for example, three different styles are possible: * The same as English * Opening quote: Small 99 at bottom of line. Closing quote: Small 66 at top of line. * Opening quote: ». Closing quote: «. Curiously, the Danish version of Office uses neither of these. It insists on a small 99 at the top of the line as both the opening and closing quote. This is not correct usage! But it is the only thing possible, unfortunately. It would be really nice if it were possible (in both Word and PowerPoint) to customize the quotation marks use for smart quotes. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Have you always had this problem in Danish Office, or is it something
you've experienced with recent versions? If the latter, you may want to verify that the language is correctly set in Word. See: Get control of language formatting in Word http://homepage.hispeed.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm If everything else fails, you can do the following to insert the correct quotation marks: To insert “ hold Alt and press 0147 on the numeric keypad (with NUMLOCK activated). ” Alt+0148 « Alt+0171 » Alt+0187 „ Alt+0132 (Depending on which font you're using to read messages, the above characters may not display correctly.) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Claus Tondering" skrev i meddelandet ... Both Word and PowerPoint have the ability to automatically convert straight quotes to smart quotes. In English, there is only one way to perform the conversion: The opening quotes should look like a small 66 at the top of the line, and the closing quotes should look like a small 99 at the top of the line. But in other languages, several different quote styles are possible. In Danish, for example, three different styles are possible: * The same as English * Opening quote: Small 99 at bottom of line. Closing quote: Small 66 at top of line. * Opening quote: ». Closing quote: «. Curiously, the Danish version of Office uses neither of these. It insists on a small 99 at the top of the line as both the opening and closing quote. This is not correct usage! But it is the only thing possible, unfortunately. It would be really nice if it were possible (in both Word and PowerPoint) to customize the quotation marks use for smart quotes. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Customizable smart quotes
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Have you always had this problem in Danish Office, or is it something you've experienced with recent versions? This has always been a problem with Danish Office. Or, for that matter, with English office if you set the proofing language to Danish. But my point is not just that the Danish Office does it wrong. The problem is that there are three different correct ways to do it in Danish, and different users may have different preferences. For that reason, it would be convenient if you could actually customize the characters used for smart quotes. (As I believe you can in WordPerfect; at least you could many years ago when I used that program.) |
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"Claus Tondering" wrote in message
... But my point is not just that the Danish Office does it wrong. The problem is that there are three different correct ways to do it in Danish, and different users may have different preferences. For that reason, it would be convenient if you could actually customize the characters used for smart quotes. That seems like a reasonable request, indeed. FWIW, in Sweden we don't have this problem; only ” (the "right-hand" quotation mark in US English text) is allowed as a quotation mark, and it is correctly inserted by Word, assuming that the language is set to Swedish. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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