BlankHi Netta, I’m not sure that you can do a global replace with apostrophies. You can try this: First and very, very important—make another copy of your work where you are now! Copy one of the apostrophies before the beginning of dialogue by highlighting it and putting it in the find box. In the replace box, put a quotation, or ^0034 Hit replace all. What might happen and what I’m afraid will happen is that it will also replace the apostrophies from contractions like don’t, shouldn’t, mustn’t. But if MS Word knows the difference between single quotes and apostrophies, you might get away with it. Lots of good luck! Marty From: Dornetta Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:56 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Removing apostrophes Hey Guys; Can someone please instruct me on how to remove apostrophes on a global replace? The book that I am proofing has apostrophes at the beginning of dialogues but not at the end. In the print book, the beginning of the dialogues begin with quotation marks. In the book the end of the dialogue has quotation marks but at the beginning of the dialogue most of the dialogue begins with an apostrophe. I didn't catch it in the beginning of the document but now that I am nearly at the end, I am seeing this problem. Thanks, Netta "Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder