[bksvol-discuss] Re: Eliminating Double Close Quotes
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:08:34 -0800 (PST)
The way I've done it is--change one set to plain
quotes; then copy the first or last smart quote into
replace, and one of the plain quotes into the with,
and then hit Replace all. Then I take the other smart
quote and so the same thing and voila!! All are the
straight quotes. It would be nice if word had a change
smart quotes to plain quotes, and I thought it did but
I haven't been able to find it lately.
G.Cindy
--- Devorah Greenstein <DGreenstein@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am a brand new volunteer, validating my first
> book. And I am having
> the exact same problem. I have encountered "the
> double close quote."
>
> I am familiar with the "smart quotes" that have a
> different appearance
> at the beginning and at the end of a quote. I know
> in Microsoft Word
> there is an option to turn the smart quotes into
> plain generic double
> quotes. But this is an RTF file I'm working with and
> I tried to do a
> find and replace by pasting the double close quote
> with a generic double
> quote and it didn't work for me.
>
> I have no idea how to put ascii characters into my
> find and replace
> command.
>
>
>
> If that helped Lori, would someone please tell me
> how to put in an ascii
> character.
>
>
>
> Feeling like an ignorant newbie. Oh, I wanted to say
> that one of the
> things that made me feel like I could do this
> validation thing was an
> old e-mail from Grandma Cindy saying she had looked
> back at her
> application and realized how much she has learned.
> So I figured I'd
> start and learn from you wise people!
>
>
>
> Thanks for any assistance,
>
> Devorah (on page 100 of my first book)
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Lori Castner
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:16 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Eliminating Double
> Close Quotes
>
>
>
> I really don't know what a "double close quote" is,
> but I pasted the
> symbol into the first box in the find and replace
> fields then pasted "
> in the replace field, and replaced all. That solved
> the problem.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Lori
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: groups Warford
> <mailto:groups_warford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:25 AM
>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Eliminating Double
> Close Quotes
>
>
>
> Hi Lori,
>
> I'm not sure if I'm understanding so am not sure if
> this will
> work. If it doesn't, could you send me an example?
>
>
>
> If you want to search for a double quote in an RTF
> file using
> the ASCII character, enter
>
> ^34
>
> in the "Find" field. If I'm understanding
> correctly, you would
> search for
>
> ^34^34
>
> for the two quotes together.
>
> Or, try putting two double quotes
>
> ""
>
> in the "Find" box.
>
>
>
> Again, my apologies; I'm not sure if I'm
> understanding what you
> mean by "double closed quotes". But then again, I'm
> not understanding
> much this morning.
>
>
>
> Anyway, if you can clarify this for my feeble brain
> I'll try to
> help.
>
>
>
> Take care!
>
> Cindy 4
>
> cindy_warford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> A smile is the same in any language.
> --Author Unknown
>
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Lori Castner
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:48 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Eliminating Double Close
> Quotes
>
> In a recent message, someone mentioned that when a
> file is
> converted from .ark to .rtf, the quotation marks
> become double close
> quotes.
>
>
>
> I have lost this email and need to know what to do
> to replace
> the double close quote marks with regular quotation
> marks. I think I
> basically need to know the symbol for double close
> quotes.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
> Cat Lover Lori
>
>
>
>
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