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Smart Quotes to straight quotes (apostrophe)
Hi
My word has been set up so that it does not change straight quotes to smart quotes. I have a number of documents that extensively use the single quotes or apostrophes(eg children's books, don't, etc). On screen, they look like "straight" , but when printed (Arial font) they come out as curly quotation marks. Never had this problem before, just the last few documents. Any suggestions as to what might have caused this and how to fix it? (PS word had not been reinstalled updated since I started using it, so no change there...) |
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Go to Tools AutoCorrect options (or whatever it's called in your version
of Word). There are checkboxes on the AutoFormat and AutoFormat as you type tabs. You can fix your existing documents using Find and Replace. "Elke" wrote in message ... Hi My word has been set up so that it does not change straight quotes to smart quotes. I have a number of documents that extensively use the single quotes or apostrophes(eg children's books, don't, etc). On screen, they look like "straight" , but when printed (Arial font) they come out as curly quotation marks. Never had this problem before, just the last few documents. Any suggestions as to what might have caused this and how to fix it? (PS word had not been reinstalled updated since I started using it, so no change there...) |
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Some printers (including HP LaserJets) will automatically substitute "curly"
apostrophes for straight ones. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... Hi My word has been set up so that it does not change straight quotes to smart quotes. I have a number of documents that extensively use the single quotes or apostrophes(eg children's books, don't, etc). On screen, they look like "straight" , but when printed (Arial font) they come out as curly quotation marks. Never had this problem before, just the last few documents. Any suggestions as to what might have caused this and how to fix it? (PS word had not been reinstalled updated since I started using it, so no change there...) |
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Thanks to you both, but tried all the above already - tick box for the curly
apostrophies had always been unticked in the autoformat and replacing them with the find and replace does not make a difference as on the screen they look like straight brackets anyway, not curled ones (only when printed). Still using the same printer as always, but never had this problem before! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Some printers (including HP LaserJets) will automatically substitute "curly" apostrophes for straight ones. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... Hi My word has been set up so that it does not change straight quotes to smart quotes. I have a number of documents that extensively use the single quotes or apostrophes(eg children's books, don't, etc). On screen, they look like "straight" , but when printed (Arial font) they come out as curly quotation marks. Never had this problem before, just the last few documents. Any suggestions as to what might have caused this and how to fix it? (PS word had not been reinstalled updated since I started using it, so no change there...) |
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Same printer *and* same driver (meaning you haven't updated either the
driver or your OS)? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... Thanks to you both, but tried all the above already - tick box for the curly apostrophies had always been unticked in the autoformat and replacing them with the find and replace does not make a difference as on the screen they look like straight brackets anyway, not curled ones (only when printed). Still using the same printer as always, but never had this problem before! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Some printers (including HP LaserJets) will automatically substitute "curly" apostrophes for straight ones. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... Hi My word has been set up so that it does not change straight quotes to smart quotes. I have a number of documents that extensively use the single quotes or apostrophes(eg children's books, don't, etc). On screen, they look like "straight" , but when printed (Arial font) they come out as curly quotation marks. Never had this problem before, just the last few documents. Any suggestions as to what might have caused this and how to fix it? (PS word had not been reinstalled updated since I started using it, so no change there...) |
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No change whatsoever - same pc, same printer, no program updates or software
installations. Only 4 PC networked to this printer and the other 3 people have not had this problem - just me! Even they cannot change my 2 docs on their pcs :-( "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Same printer *and* same driver (meaning you haven't updated either the driver or your OS)? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... Thanks to you both, but tried all the above already - tick box for the curly apostrophies had always been unticked in the autoformat and replacing them with the find and replace does not make a difference as on the screen they look like straight brackets anyway, not curled ones (only when printed). Still using the same printer as always, but never had this problem before! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Some printers (including HP LaserJets) will automatically substitute "curly" apostrophes for straight ones. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... Hi My word has been set up so that it does not change straight quotes to smart quotes. I have a number of documents that extensively use the single quotes or apostrophes(eg children's books, don't, etc). On screen, they look like "straight" , but when printed (Arial font) they come out as curly quotation marks. Never had this problem before, just the last few documents. Any suggestions as to what might have caused this and how to fix it? (PS word had not been reinstalled updated since I started using it, so no change there...) |
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Very bizarre. You might try posting in the printingfonts NG.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... No change whatsoever - same pc, same printer, no program updates or software installations. Only 4 PC networked to this printer and the other 3 people have not had this problem - just me! Even they cannot change my 2 docs on their pcs :-( "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Same printer *and* same driver (meaning you haven't updated either the driver or your OS)? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... Thanks to you both, but tried all the above already - tick box for the curly apostrophies had always been unticked in the autoformat and replacing them with the find and replace does not make a difference as on the screen they look like straight brackets anyway, not curled ones (only when printed). Still using the same printer as always, but never had this problem before! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Some printers (including HP LaserJets) will automatically substitute "curly" apostrophes for straight ones. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Elke" wrote in message ... Hi My word has been set up so that it does not change straight quotes to smart quotes. I have a number of documents that extensively use the single quotes or apostrophes(eg children's books, don't, etc). On screen, they look like "straight" , but when printed (Arial font) they come out as curly quotation marks. Never had this problem before, just the last few documents. Any suggestions as to what might have caused this and how to fix it? (PS word had not been reinstalled updated since I started using it, so no change there...) |
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