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greggsewell
I have a 200-plus-page document with many words and phrases surrounded by
single quotation marks. These have all been replaced with smart (curly)
quotation marks.
I need to remove all of the single quotation marks but leave the apostrophes
in contractions alone.
Examples:
Need to remove:
'Bob'
'Bob and friends'
'Bob and many friends'
etc.
Need to leave alone:
don't
we'll
can't
I've read and read on the topic of Find and Replace, regular expressions,
and wildcards. It seems to me that Word's Find and Replace can do this, but I
cannot find an example that shows me how, and I'm not expert enough to deduce
on my own how to set up a regular expression to get the job done.
I'm using Microsoft Word X for Mac Service Release 1
Thanks for your help.
single quotation marks. These have all been replaced with smart (curly)
quotation marks.
I need to remove all of the single quotation marks but leave the apostrophes
in contractions alone.
Examples:
Need to remove:
'Bob'
'Bob and friends'
'Bob and many friends'
etc.
Need to leave alone:
don't
we'll
can't
I've read and read on the topic of Find and Replace, regular expressions,
and wildcards. It seems to me that Word's Find and Replace can do this, but I
cannot find an example that shows me how, and I'm not expert enough to deduce
on my own how to set up a regular expression to get the job done.
I'm using Microsoft Word X for Mac Service Release 1
Thanks for your help.