Sorry, I can't think of any short way except, maybe, do a find for period, space,capital next letter; the replace with period, space quotation mark capital letter (and that's not a very short way,a is it? smile On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Shelagh Kulchin <skulchin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > Does anyone know if there is a way to search for sentences that have > closing quotation marks, but not opening ones? For example "What are you > going to do?" she asked. Try to find out who he is." > > (I realize this also needs to be on two lines). > > > > In addition, smart (curly) quotation marks are used. However, all of the > quotations open with closing-direction marks. Will this affect the reading, > and do they need to be changed? > > Thanks for your help! > > Shelagh >