How to force apostrophe?

[Poliwog]

Hello:

Can someone tell me how to force an apostrophe in Word 2004 Mac? When
I type words that begin with apostrophes (like 'em or not), I get
single, curly LEFT quotes; i.e., a backwards apostrophe. The Windows
sequence for this is Ctr+'-->' (that is, hold down Ctr and ' release
and type '). This doesn't work on the Mac, nor does anything I've
tried.

Les

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Here, I went into Word Insert|Symbol and assigned new Shortcut keys to
opening (left) quote (I used Command+' ) and closing (right) quote (I used
Command+Shift+' ). You have to click the Assign button in the Customize
Keyboard dialog before clicking OK.

I expect the predefined shortcuts are intercepted by Mac OS X somewhere, but
perhaps someone has the whole picture.

Peter Jamieson

 

[Eòin]

Sgrìobh Poliwog:

Can someone tell me how to force an apostrophe in Word 2004 Mac? When
I type words that begin with apostrophes (like 'em or not), I get
single, curly LEFT quotes;

Press SHIFT and ALT and ] (that last one is the square close
bracket at the far right of the qwerty row)

Works on my Powebook G4 - and have "curly quotes enabled"

Eòin

 

[Elliott Roper]

Sgrìobh Poliwog:

Can someone tell me how to force an apostrophe in Word 2004 Mac? When
I type words that begin with apostrophes (like 'em or not), I get
single, curly LEFT quotes;

Press SHIFT and ALT and ] (that last one is the square close
bracket at the far right of the qwerty row)

Works on my Powebook G4 - and have "curly quotes enabled"

Thanks for that. It is a neatness I did not know.

I'll add a little more, hopefully relevant stuff....
I have used autocorrect and the character palette to solve similar
problems. For instance, to get an uncurly apostrophe, precisely a
"prime", I inserted a Unicode 2032 into Word from the character
palette, selected it, then danced through Tools » Autocorrect, to make
a entry (p) to be replaced by the selected prime character. I did the
same for the Apple command symbol (cmd) and various other useful glyphs
used when writing how-to articles on the care and feeding of
Macintoshes.
The idea of (something memorable) as an autocorrect input was nicked
from a few built-in examples already there, like (c) for © and (tm) for
, even though there a Mac standard keystrokes for copyright and
trademark. I did the same thing for common fractions too.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Sgrìobh Poliwog:

Can someone tell me how to force an apostrophe in Word 2004 Mac? When
I type words that begin with apostrophes (like 'em or not), I get
single, curly LEFT quotes;

Press SHIFT and ALT and ] (that last one is the square close
bracket at the far right of the qwerty row)

Works on my Powebook G4 - and have "curly quotes enabled"

Eòin

Just to add to what Eòin says, this is a Mac-standard keystroke. It isn't
dependent on whether or not curly quotes are enabled or even whether you are
in Word or not.

Opening curly single quotes Πare Option+ ]
Closing curly single quotes ¹ are Shift + Option + ]
Opening curly double quotes ³ are Option + [
Closing curly double quotes ² are Shift + Option + [

Personally, I think Apple got the keying of [ and ] and the Shift key around
the wrong way, but it was settled long ago -- about the time when JC played
half-back for Jerusalem.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Poliwog]

On Feb 12, 6:33 pm, Clive Huggan
Thanks to everyone; I've got it now.

This is the first time in ten years on the Internet that I've been
addressed in Gaelic! (It means--obviously--"Poliwog wrote:") Emazing,
as my kid used to say.

Les

 

[David Wolff]

Hello:

Can someone tell me how to force an apostrophe in Word 2004 Mac? When
I type words that begin with apostrophes (like 'em or not), I get
single, curly LEFT quotes; i.e., a backwards apostrophe. The Windows
sequence for this is Ctr+'-->' (that is, hold down Ctr and ' release
and type '). This doesn't work on the Mac, nor does anything I've
tried.

It sounds like you're trying to get a straight apostrophe.

In that case, Cmd-Z (propeller-Z) immediately after typing an apostrophe
un-does the curlification. If it's only a problem occasionally, this
may be easier than screwing around with autocorrection.

Thanks --

David

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