Change Smart Quotes To Dumb Quotes

[Gordon Padwick]

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

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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]

Thanks for the helpful suggestions - Gordon

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

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You're welcome.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org