[bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:55:47 -0800
Many thanks, Judy. The "bad" news about the auto correct is wiped put
by the "good news that I don't have to change the smart quotes.
another time-saver. smile;
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Cindy,
>
> Unfortunately, there isn't a setting in Word that lets you autocorrect a
> document that's already made with the smart quotes in it to get rid of the
> existing smart quotes. Marty's technique works best. However, as Ali and
> others have mentioned, you don't have to worry about smart quotes any more
> in a document as Bookshare's conversion tool now correctly changes them to
> straight quotes. We used to have to get rid of smart quotes and I'll bet
> that's what you're remembering having to do, because I remember having to do
> it all the time too! smile.
>
> Judy s.
>
>
>
> On 11/22/2012 12:45 PM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
>>
>> Thanks,Marty. I was looking more for something like in the Auto
>> Correct under Auto format that I could click on that would
>> automatically change smart quotes to straight quotes so I wouldn't
>> have to find and replace; smile. In the tools menu you can click a
>> thing under Auto format and auto correct and straight quotes will be
>> changed to "smart" quotes, but don't see anything that will allow me
>> to do the opposite.
>>
>> Is it true that it doesn't matter if curly quotes ("smart" quotes)
>> are retained and not changed? Why do I have the idea that they should
>> be; (oh--looking at my file--is it because sometimes smart quotes curl
>> the wrong way and so have to be corrected each time, with straight
>> quotes there's no such problem.
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