Which feature is used to replace straight quotes with smart quotes

As you type text, Word automatically changes straight quotation marks ( ' or " ) to curly quotation marks (also known as "smart quotes" or typographer's quotes). And now with your feedback we have improved smart quotes feature. Any quote following an em dash(--) is now formatted as an open quote (rather than closed quote). You can turn this feature on or off. To disable smart quotes, • On the File tab, click Options. • Click Proofing, and then click AutoCorrect Options. • In the AutoCorrect dialog box, do the following: • Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab, and under Replace as you type, select or clear the "Straight quotes" with “smart quotes” check box. • Click the AutoFormat tab, and under Replace, select or clear the "Straight quotes" with “smart quotes” check box. • Click OK.

Peter - You were in the right place in your original post, except you have to go to the "AutoFormat As You Type" tab. There is a checkbox on that tab that will turn off the formatting that occurs as you type. To be honest, I am not sure what the effect of the settings on the "AutoFormat" tab is. I always use the "AutoFormat As You Type" tab to turn this feature off. Hope that helps... In Microsoft Outlook 2010, the tools menu is no longer listed as a group and the commands and icons of tools are scattered to display at different places in the ribbon. There is no button 'AutoCorrect Options" on any of the Outlook 2010 menus. The only 'AutoCorrect Options button is in Outlook 2010 File-> section Options-> section Mail-> as listed above, and as far as I can tell, the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box does not work for me - I have it de-selected and I still get straight single and double quotes replaced with curly single and double quotes. I know JoshP said Delta-Force's answer is a copy of Shannon's answer, but let's make this super clear in one spot. As Delta-Force says, you may to need to set this in two places, the one the OP mentioned (AutoFormat) AND the one Shannon mentioned (AutoFormat As You Type). I found • On the File tab, click Options. • Click Mail, then Editor Options and then click the AutoCorrect Options button. • In the AutoCorrect dialog box, do the following: • Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab, and under Replace as you type, select or clear...

How to Fix Quote Marks in Microsoft Word MS Word has come a long way from the simple word processing tool it once was. Now it can even automatically change quotation marks into the proper left or right curling quotes whenever appropriate. Sometimes though, you may not want these smart quotes to be used, or want them but can’t seem to get them. In this article, we’ll show you how to fix the quote marks in Word, along with useful tips to improve your typing efficiency. What Are Smart Quotes? Smart Quotes are quotation marks that curl either to the left or the right depending on which part of the sentence they’re located in. Word does this automatically, thus the smart connotation. Old-time typewriters used to have only the straight-quote, because of the limitations of the machine itself. “So, what’s the problem?” You may ask. “Aren’t left and right quote marks better anyway?”. Well, yes and no. Smart quotes are certainly the proper way to write a quotation mark. But there are some occasions where using smart quotes will actually be inadvisable. Some printers, for example, won’t recognize smart quotes and cause printing errors. Webpage languages like HTML and CSS have specific codes for straight and smart quotes. Therefore, using one over the other may affect what’s displayed on the screen. Enabling Smart Quotes To ensure that smart quotes are enabled on your MS Word, you can check the formatting settings: • Click on File in the upper left corner of the toolbar. • On the lowe...

Whenever I receive a manuscript to edit, I automatically change it to a font I find easy on the eyes for the first critique read pre-edit, and looks good for agent submission or self-publishing. No matter which original font the author uses, Word changes the quotes, single and double, to straight quotes, when it goes from the author’s computer to mine. It’s already bolloxed up before I put it in Bookman Old Style, or even my other favorite, Palatino Linotype, which uses straight quotes, but of a different style from Word’s choice. I was alerted by an author who was proofing his return book from Amazon’s Kindle people that they were having trouble resetting his now typeset manuscript from a layout artist, because there were both smart (curly) and straight quotes in it. Hm. Problem. There should have been no straight quotes in it. I tried mass changing through the Find and Replace function. No joy. Word would say, essentially: No Changes Found. If I put in the character set codes of 0146 and 0148, F&R simply couldn’t see a difference. No surprise; they are the same numbers Word was using to change them. After studying Word’s How-to guides to fix the problem, I knew less than I did before, and I had already tried what was offered as the solutions. I could hand-change the quotes. It did work. But who in their right mind was going to do that? There can be 50,000 double and single quotes (since these double as apostrophes) in a manuscript. Who knows how many; it depends on the s...

Thank to Nick van Esch at Here is the code ('\u2019' is ’ in MS Word), it's useful because it covers problematic word characters. if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2013') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u2013', '-'); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2014') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u2014', '-'); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2015') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u2015', '-'); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2017') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u2017', '_'); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2018') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u2018', '\''); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2019') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u2019', '\''); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u201a') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u201a', ','); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u201b') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u201b', '\''); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u201c') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u201c', '\"'); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u201d') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u201d', '\"'); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u201e') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u201e', '\"'); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2026') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace("\u2026", "..."); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2032') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u2032', '\''); if (buffer.IndexOf('\u2033') > -1) buffer = buffer.Replace('\u2033', '\"');

This works for me when I try it: Sub ReplaceSingleQuotes() Dim blnQuotes As Boolean blnQuotes = Application.Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes Application.Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes = True ActiveDocument.Content.Find.Execute FindText:="'", MatchCase:=False, _ MatchWholeWord:=False, MatchWildcards:=False, Wrap:=wdFindStop, _ Format:=False, ReplaceWith:="'", Replace:=wdReplaceAll Application.Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes = blnQuotes End Sub --- Kind regards, HansV https://www.eileenslounge.com