CURLY QUOTES

[Subligaria]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to search for curly (smart) double quotes in Word 2007?

Searching for the ASCIi code ^147 doesn't seem to work...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I find that just searching for " works. Unless you're searching for curly
quotes specifically (as opposed to straight quotes), in which case you'd
have some false hits, try that. It has the advantage that it finds both
opening and closing quotes.

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

 

[Subligaria]

I am searching specifically for curly quotes.

I want to replace them with curly single quotes. If I do what you suggest,
instances where non-curly double quotes are employed to denote inches would
also be replaced...

Do you know how to find curly quotes specifically?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, it would be helpful if you weren't using straight quotes as inch
marks; I use characters 2032 and 2033 as foot and inch marks.

But you can search for the curly quotes specifically by entering 201C, Alt+X
or 201D, Alt+X in the "Find what" box. You can also copy/paste them
directly.

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

 

[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

The search engine cannot read hexadecimal numbers, so you'll have to use
decimal numbers. For example, Hex 201C = dec 8220. In the find: box, enter


^u8220 to find the left double quotation mark

^u8221 to find the right double quotation mark

You can use the Windows calculator to convert hex to decimal numbers.


PamC

Well, it would be helpful if you weren't using straight quotes as inch
marks; I use characters 2032 and 2033 as foot and inch marks.

But you can search for the curly quotes specifically by entering 201C, Alt+X
or 201D, Alt+X in the "Find what" box. You can also copy/paste them
directly.

I am searching specifically for curly quotes.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can use the hex numbers with Alt+X, however.

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

The search engine cannot read hexadecimal numbers, so you'll have to use
decimal numbers. For example, Hex 201C = dec 8220. In the find: box,
enter


^u8220 to find the left double quotation mark

^u8221 to find the right double quotation mark

You can use the Windows calculator to convert hex to decimal numbers.


PamC

Well, it would be helpful if you weren't using straight quotes as inch
marks; I use characters 2032 and 2033 as foot and inch marks.

But you can search for the curly quotes specifically by entering 201C,
Alt+X
or 201D, Alt+X in the "Find what" box. You can also copy/paste them
directly.

I am searching specifically for curly quotes.

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Searching for the ASCIi code ^147 doesn't seem to work...

 

[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

Wow, that's good news. Thanks. I note, though, that if the full dialog is
showing, Alt+x puts a check mark in the match prefix box, but does not
convert the code to the character.

Pam

You can use the hex numbers with Alt+X, however.

The search engine cannot read hexadecimal numbers, so you'll have to use
decimal numbers. For example, Hex 201C = dec 8220. In the find: box,

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[Graham Mayor]

Search for ^0147 (left curly quote) or ^0148 (right curly quote)

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Always more than one way to skin a cat. For most users, I think just copying
and pasting the characters into the dialog is probably the simplest
solution, since it doesn't require knowing the character number (ASCII or
Unicode, decimal or hex). It requires only knowing that you can paste into
the dialog using Ctrl+V.

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

 

[Graham Mayor]

Maybe, but the OP did however know that the character code was ASC 147, but
was using it incorrectly - without the required leading zero.
See the note at http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm relating
to ASCII character searches.
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Oh, quite, and that information is helpful (and something I didn't
know/remember); I think among all the answers, the OP will have quite a few
ways forward.

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

 

[Subligaria]

The zero in front of 147 was something Word's help system not
uncharacteristically omitted to mention...

Thanks for the clarification

 

[Graham Mayor]

Actually this is not peculiar to Word. From my web site:

ASCII codes below 128 were standardized a long time ago, before the
introduction of Windows operating systems. The upper codes were used for
OS-specific, localized, or vendor-specific stuff. When DOS code pages were
replaced by Windows code pages, a leading zero was used to indicated the
difference.
Thus ^32 and ^032 will both represent a space character, but ^147 will
represent ô and ^0147 will represent "

These are the same codes that you would use to enter the characters from the
keyboard using ALT+the numbers on the numeric key pad (though whether the
inserted characters will survive the newsreader software used to post them
here remains to be seen).

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