Re: quote within quote

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Hi Marianna:

Learn to type the single quote yourself as Option + ]

Word was designed back in the days when ASCII was all we had, and the
character sets of those days did not HAVE the "Left single quotation mark"
character (hexadecimal 20 18). So there was no way to type the character!

So Word contains an algorithm that substitutes the correct depending on
whether you type a space before or after it. The algorithm says "If the
user types an apostrophe (a straight quote) and it has a space in front of
it, it must be an "opening single quote" so substitute the Left single
quotation mark character. If the user typed an apostrophe with a space
after it, it must be a closing quote, so substitute the Right single
quotation character."

As you can see, this "guesses" correctly almost every time. You have found
one of the exceptions :-)

However the single quotation characters are now in almost every font. You
can now typing the character directly without having to wait for Word to
"guess", and there's a keystroke for it -- Option ].

Hope this helps

On 15/3/06 1:38 PM, in article
1142390320.579665.106000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "marianna"
<gbergs3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I use "smart quotes" -- i.e., quotation marks that curl downward toward
the quoted material: on the front end, they curl from left to right;
after the quotation, it's vice-versa. The problem: When I do a quote
within a quote -- i.e., one that begins with a double quotation mark
followed by a single one: "'
For some reason MS Word isn't so 'smart' about those single quotes: The
initial one curls in the wrong direction, as if it's at the end of a
quotation. The only 'fix' I've found is ridiculous: Type double
quotation; space; type single quotation (which curls properly); move
cursor to left of single quotation; delete empty space. I've looked in
two Word for Mac books; neither had anything more than vague, global
information about the concept of smart quotes and editing an entire
document.
Can anyone help?


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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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