We have discussed the single quotation mark versus the double quotation mark before and I am not sure that this is a single quotation mark. If the book is in American English and the closing quotation mark is a double quotation mark then the opening quotation mark has been misscanned as something. It has been misscanned as either a single quotation mark or as an apostrophe. That would be a good reason to copy and paste it in the find dialog before replacing it with a double quotation mark. That is, it is a good idea if the word processor differentiates between single quotation marks and apostrophes. I don't know whether it does or not, so it is a good idea to copy and paste it just in case.
On 1/4/2013 12:53 AM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
Put the apostrophe, (which really is a single quote mark, found on keyboard under the double quote mark the find place ((or you can copy the mark and past it in the find space) and put the double quotataionmark in the replace with space. and hit replace all. If thereis a single quote mark at the end of the dialogue (maybe it's there and you just don't see it? that will put the normal quotation mark, there, too. If there really is nothing there, as you say. you'll just have to read and put the correct end quote mark where it belongs; this is what I had to do in the book I just finished, and it's so easy to miss the fact that it's missing. It's in large part why it took me so long to finish proofing the book.HTHOn Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Dornetta <dornetta@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dornetta@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: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
