Microsoft KB Archive/110437

Grammar Checker Replaces Smart Quotes with Standard Quotes

PSS ID Number: Q110437 Article last modified on 09-15-1995

6.00 6.00a |6.00

WINDOWS |MACINTOSH

= SYMPTOMS =

If you have “smart quotes” quotation marks (also called “curly quotes”) in your document and you run the grammar checker, the smart quotes are replaced with standard quotation marks.

= CAUSE =

The current grammar module, supplied by Houghton Miflin, recognizes smart quotes and changes them to standard quotation marks.

= WORKAROUND =

There are no options to prevent the grammar checker from changing your quotation mark type. However, you can work around this problem by using the Word search-and-replace feature to replace the standard quotation marks with smart quotes. To do so:


 * 1) After the grammar checker replaces the smart quotes with standard quotation marks, choose Replace from the Edit menu.
 * 2) In the Find What box, type standard quotation marks (&quot;).
 * 3) In the Replace With box, type “^0148” (without the quotation marks).
 * 4) Choose Replace or Replace All.

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