How do you type the curly apostrophe?

[Jack]

Re Word 97 --

How do you type the curly apostrophe (the one that looks like a comma) in
Times New Roman?

Jack

 

[Guest]

I think what you are looking for can be accomplished by
clicking shift and the number one keys simultaneously. I
think that charactr is called the atilda.

 

[tippy]

I think what you are looking for can be accomplished by
clicking shift and the number one keys simultaneously. I
think that charactr is called the atilda.

~ Tilde is Correct. On my keyboard, its to the left of my 1 key.
If you don't have it on your keyboard, go into special characters and
symbols.
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Tippy

 

[Edward]

The only way I know, Jack is to go to Tools/Autocorrect and select the
"Autoformat as you type" tab. Under "Replace as you type" enable "Straight
quotes with smart quotes".

Hipe this helps,

Ed

 

[Ghengis]

Nope -- I am talking about a real curly apostrophe. See attached
document -- it's the apostrophe in the first line.

I don't know how I put it in there -- I've looked at the ANSI codes and
ASCII code and Times New Roman symbols and don't see it. I'd like to know
how to do it again -- it's a real mystery.

Jack

Either use Insert -> Symbol, or, if you already have one, cut and paste it.
The keyboard mappings will depending on your language/localisation settings.

 

[Jack]

Edward,

Yes, that does it -- thanks.

Now here's the full story behind all this:
I saved a document with the file name, "Jack's Xmas List 2003.doc" (no
quotes, of course).

Later, upon attempting to retrieve it, I noticed it was not in alphabetical
order with the other files. I discovered the reason was due to the
apostrophe (it looked different and had a different effect upon the file
sort). So, I copied the file name from Windows Explore, and pasted in into
a word document. There I saw the apostrophe was curly. I could not
reproduce it with any ANSI or ASCII codes or from the Times New Roman
symbols.

The real mystery is how the file name came to use that unusual apostrophe.
I can't remember if I went into Windows Explore to change the file name, and
it happened then, or if it was originally saved that way. In any case, it
was part of the file name!!?!

Jack

 

[tippy]

I guess a good example of using a special character in a file name.
The one I hate to see people use is the period. Apparently, the
period confuses the application sometimes...probably can't figure out
what the suffix is to read the document.

Edward,

Yes, that does it -- thanks.

Now here's the full story behind all this:
I saved a document with the file name, "Jack's Xmas List 2003.doc" (no
quotes, of course).

Later, upon attempting to retrieve it, I noticed it was not in alphabetical
order with the other files. I discovered the reason was due to the
apostrophe (it looked different and had a different effect upon the file
sort). So, I copied the file name from Windows Explore, and pasted in into
a word document. There I saw the apostrophe was curly. I could not
reproduce it with any ANSI or ASCII codes or from the Times New Roman
symbols.

The real mystery is how the file name came to use that unusual apostrophe.
I can't remember if I went into Windows Explore to change the file name, and
it happened then, or if it was originally saved that way. In any case, it
was part of the file name!!?!

Jack

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Tippy