problem with automatic quotation marks
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From: Matthew C. on 24 May 2010 10:41 Here's my problem: I've got a large document that's been pasted together from multiple sources. I did a <select all> and changed the font to Adobe Garamond Pro. It looks great, but in some places it automatically formats the open and close quotation marks mixed up. In other places it displays non-directional quotation marks like this: "quotation". I've manually corrected most of the document with find/replace, but I can't automatically <replace all> because it tries to for the wrong quotation mark...like it's confused. For example, if there is a dash before the quotation mark, it automatically tries to use another open-quotation mark. Looking at the font table, it seems like Word manipulates the font graphic...rotating and curving it based on whether it thinks it's an open or close quotation. Is there some kind of grammar/spell check rule that can find wrong or orphaned quotation marks?
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on 24 May 2010 11:10
If the quotation marks are actually more-or-less correct font characters, try searching for for " and replacing with " (that's a "straight quote" in both cases). Fortunately, searching for " will also find "curly" quote characters, and AutoFormat As You Type will result in their being replaced with the (mostly) correct ones. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Matthew C." <MatthewC(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:34EC880D-8CA9-485F-9C37-0B058A76CD06(a)microsoft.com... > Here's my problem: I've got a large document that's been pasted together > from multiple sources. I did a <select all> and changed the font to Adobe > Garamond Pro. It looks great, but in some places it automatically formats > the > open and close quotation marks mixed up. In other places it displays > non-directional quotation marks like this: "quotation". I've manually > corrected most of the document with find/replace, but I can't > automatically > <replace all> because it tries to for the wrong quotation mark...like it's > confused. For example, if there is a dash before the quotation mark, it > automatically tries to use another open-quotation mark. > > Looking at the font table, it seems like Word manipulates the font > graphic...rotating and curving it based on whether it thinks it's an open > or > close quotation. > > Is there some kind of grammar/spell check rule that can find wrong or > orphaned quotation marks? |