Quote, Unquote
Wednesday, August 27th, 2003If you’ve read many past issues of this newsletter, you know that I loathe Word’s AutoFormat options, although I do use one of them–”Replace straight quotes with smart quotes.” But sometimes, no matter how hard I try, I can’t insert a quotation mark going the right direction. If I want a closing quotation mark, Word insists on giving me an opening one–or vice versa. If you’ve run into this problem, you know how maddening it can be. Wouldn’t it be nice to type precisely the kind of “smart” quotation marks you need without having Word second-guess what you’re doing? It turns out there’s a built-in way to do that. Here are the key commands you need: