manuscript grooming

[Jason]

I have an 85000 word manuscript which I am trying to ready for
publication. Somehow the single quotes are appearing as straight
quotes and the double quotes as smart quotes, Short of changing each
and every one manually, is there a shortcut? Some quotes go left and
some go right, so a find and replace approach will not fly, right?
Second, it seems that I should have been allowing two spaces after
each period before the new sentence, and I have left only one. Is
there a shortcut to deal with that.? Thanks all.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Jason,

The first query is probably easily fixable, but I can think of several
meanings in relation to what you are trying to achieve. I'll guess one.

If you are trying to simply replace the presently dumb (straight) single
quotes with smart (curly) single ones, just:

1. choose Tools menu -> AutoCorrect -> AutoFormat as you type -> put a tick
in the box for Replace text as you type: "Straight quotes for smart
quotes".

2. Edit menu -> Replace -> put a single quote in both the upper and lower
fields -> Replace all.

This will allocate the correct direction (66/99) to the quotation marks.

If you want to achieve something else, please give more detail, including
exactly what you want to achieve.

For the second problem: as in step 2 above but type period+space in the
upper field and period+2 spaces in the lower (not the words I have typed --
key in an actual period followed by an actual space).


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