A quotation usually begins with a capital letter. If you do a find and replace for only the apostrophe followed by a capital letter then you should not be replacing words like 'twas. I suppose a sentence might start with such a word, but if it does then that would be so rare that you should remember it and you can look for it to make an exception.
On 1/4/2013 9:12 AM, Martha Rafter wrote:
Hi Folks,Then What about stuff like ‘twas and ‘bout? I’m not sure if there is a global way of doing it.*From:* Vivian Flores <mailto:vivian@xxxxxxxx> *Sent:* Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:59 PM *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing apostrophes You might try:If the dialogue is the beginning of a paragraph, you can do a search & replace for ^p' (paragraph mark and an apostrophe no space) to replace it with a ^p", or if it is in the middle of the paragraph you can do a search and replace for space' to replace space".Vivian At 07:45 PM 1/3/2013 -0500, you wrote:Hi Netta,Im not sure that you can do a global replace with apostrophies. You can try this: First and very, very importantmake 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 Im afraid will happen is that it will also replace the apostrophies from contractions like dont, shouldnt, mustnt. 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 <mailto:dornetta@xxxxxxxxx> *Sent:* Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:56 PM *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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
