kelly, I got impatient and tried that little trick and pOOF all is right again!!! Oh I ma so glad that works. I have tons of things that anoy me like that and now I can fix them. Oh, Thanks ever sooooooooo much!!! That is wonderful to my ears. Shannon ----- Original Message ----- From: "shannon work" <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: single closed quotes and apostraphys > Kelly, > I had saidto Gitto that the quotes were correct but I was wrong. When I typ > a quote in word Windows calls them QUOTE, but in this scann they are being > read as open and closed double quote. Can I use the same trick with coppy > and paste on them too? > Shannon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 7:58 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: single closed quotes and apostraphys > > > > Hi Shannon, > > when this happens it's annoying to everyone. <smile> What you should do to > > correct it is first see if quotation marks are being represented with > these > > too or just apostrophes. If it's just apostrophes this will be easy. Try > > selecting one of these characters, copying it to the clipboard, and > pasting > > it into the find and replace dialogue. Then type a regular apostrophe in > the > > replace field and hit replace all. You should be in business. Just look > > around after you're done with the find/replace to make sure nothing weird > > happened, like check to be sure there are no spaces around the > apostrophes. > > Hth, > > Kellie > > > > > >