I don't think so. I've not seen it reported before on here and I support
many heavy users of Word 2003 and not had any reports either. Is that
happening on just a single (long) document or are you experiencing this with
many documents? Does it work OK typing in real-time (i.e. you have
straightquotes with smartquotes as you type enabled)?
Terry
:I have tried several times with Find &Replace to switch them to straight
: quotes and back again, switching the Autoformat off then on again. First
: couple of times it got me nowhere, & all the quotes stayed reversed. Now
: I've got to the point where all the quotes (I'm talking, by the way, about
: single quotes (and apostrophes) are closing quotes (so now the closing
quotes
: and all the apostrophes are correct) but I still can't get the opening
curly
: quotes to "Replace" properly. (They are correct when I TYPE them in, but
: there are a lot of them and I don't want to have to retype them all). I've
: never had this trouble before - could it be a new glitch in Office 2003?
:
: "TF" wrote:
:
: > Try putting them all back as straight quotes and then use AutoFormat to
see
: > if it changes the quotes correctly. (Note that you need the option
turned on
: > under AutoFormat options.)
: >
: > --
: > Terry Farrell - Word MVP
:
: >
: >
: > : > : I'm using Find and Replace to try and correct the curly quotes in a
very
: > long
: > : Word document, but they all come out reversed: Word puts closing
quotes
: > : BEFORE the word in each case, and opening quotes AFTER the word. I've
: > tried
: > : switching "smart quotes" off, then Find and Replace to change curly
quotes
: > to
: > : straight, and then back again, but finally they still all come out
: > reversed.
: >
: >
: >
