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Change Smart Quotes To Dumb Quotes
I'm working on a document that deals with Windows Presentation Foundation.
Many of the programming examples include text that is within quotation marks, but these have to be ordinary quotation marks, not the smart quotation marks that Word automatically creates. I wrote much of the text before thinking that I should turn off Word's automatic creation of smart quotation marks. Now, I need to edit the text so that, within the programming examples, the smart quotation marks are changed to ordinary quotation marks. So far, I haven't found a way to do that. After turning off the automatic formatting capability for quotation marks, Word refuses to convert the automatic smart quotation marks to ordinary quotation marks. Can anyone suggest how I can solve this problem? Also, there is the problem that, in the future, I would like Word's automatic creation of smart quotation marks to be active within text paragraphs, but inactive within text that represents program code. How would I manage that? Gordon |
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Change Smart Quotes To Dumb Quotes
To change the existing ones, disable the Smart Quotes option and replace "
with " and ' with '. This will reinsert the quotes, but the AutoFormat won't fire. For the original typing, you have two options: 1. Leave Smart Quotes disabled. For straight quotes, just use the quote key; for "curly" quotes, use Word's built-in keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+', " Closing double quote Ctrl+`, " Opening double quote Ctrl+', ' Closing single quote, apostrophe Ctrl+`, ` Opening single quote 2. Enable Smart Quotes. For straight quotes, immediately press Ctrl+Z to Undo the AutoFormat. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Gordon Padwick" wrote in message ... I'm working on a document that deals with Windows Presentation Foundation. Many of the programming examples include text that is within quotation marks, but these have to be ordinary quotation marks, not the smart quotation marks that Word automatically creates. I wrote much of the text before thinking that I should turn off Word's automatic creation of smart quotation marks. Now, I need to edit the text so that, within the programming examples, the smart quotation marks are changed to ordinary quotation marks. So far, I haven't found a way to do that. After turning off the automatic formatting capability for quotation marks, Word refuses to convert the automatic smart quotation marks to ordinary quotation marks. Can anyone suggest how I can solve this problem? Also, there is the problem that, in the future, I would like Word's automatic creation of smart quotation marks to be active within text paragraphs, but inactive within text that represents program code. How would I manage that? Gordon |
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Change Smart Quotes To Dumb Quotes
Thanks for the helpful suggestions - Gordon
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... To change the existing ones, disable the Smart Quotes option and replace " with " and ' with '. This will reinsert the quotes, but the AutoFormat won't fire. For the original typing, you have two options: 1. Leave Smart Quotes disabled. For straight quotes, just use the quote key; for "curly" quotes, use Word's built-in keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+', " Closing double quote Ctrl+`, " Opening double quote Ctrl+', ' Closing single quote, apostrophe Ctrl+`, ` Opening single quote 2. Enable Smart Quotes. For straight quotes, immediately press Ctrl+Z to Undo the AutoFormat. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Gordon Padwick" wrote in message ... I'm working on a document that deals with Windows Presentation Foundation. Many of the programming examples include text that is within quotation marks, but these have to be ordinary quotation marks, not the smart quotation marks that Word automatically creates. I wrote much of the text before thinking that I should turn off Word's automatic creation of smart quotation marks. Now, I need to edit the text so that, within the programming examples, the smart quotation marks are changed to ordinary quotation marks. So far, I haven't found a way to do that. After turning off the automatic formatting capability for quotation marks, Word refuses to convert the automatic smart quotation marks to ordinary quotation marks. Can anyone suggest how I can solve this problem? Also, there is the problem that, in the future, I would like Word's automatic creation of smart quotation marks to be active within text paragraphs, but inactive within text that represents program code. How would I manage that? Gordon |
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Change Smart Quotes To Dumb Quotes
You're welcome.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Gordon Padwick" wrote in message ... Thanks for the helpful suggestions - Gordon "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... To change the existing ones, disable the Smart Quotes option and replace " with " and ' with '. This will reinsert the quotes, but the AutoFormat won't fire. For the original typing, you have two options: 1. Leave Smart Quotes disabled. For straight quotes, just use the quote key; for "curly" quotes, use Word's built-in keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+', " Closing double quote Ctrl+`, " Opening double quote Ctrl+', ' Closing single quote, apostrophe Ctrl+`, ` Opening single quote 2. Enable Smart Quotes. For straight quotes, immediately press Ctrl+Z to Undo the AutoFormat. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Gordon Padwick" wrote in message ... I'm working on a document that deals with Windows Presentation Foundation. Many of the programming examples include text that is within quotation marks, but these have to be ordinary quotation marks, not the smart quotation marks that Word automatically creates. I wrote much of the text before thinking that I should turn off Word's automatic creation of smart quotation marks. Now, I need to edit the text so that, within the programming examples, the smart quotation marks are changed to ordinary quotation marks. So far, I haven't found a way to do that. After turning off the automatic formatting capability for quotation marks, Word refuses to convert the automatic smart quotation marks to ordinary quotation marks. Can anyone suggest how I can solve this problem? Also, there is the problem that, in the future, I would like Word's automatic creation of smart quotation marks to be active within text paragraphs, but inactive within text that represents program code. How would I manage that? Gordon |
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