Microsoft KB Archive/68480

Smart Quotes Cause Syntax Error When Used in Macro

PSS ID Number: Q68480 Article last modified on 02-17-1993

1.00 1.10 WINDOWS

Summary: When smart quotes are enabled, the quotation marks typed in a macro will cause a syntax error. Smart quotes must first be disabled before typing quotation marks into a macro.

More Information: SmartQuotes is a Word for Windows macro provided with version 1.10 that install a printers’ open and closed quotation marks in substitution for standard typewriter style quotation marks. The SmartQuotes macro is installed from EXAMPLES.DOC. The SmartQuotes macro can be disabled by selecting Disable SmartQuotes from the Utilities menu.

Additional reference words: w4wmacro