On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Tamblyne wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:03:54 -0400, Dennis Sledge
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Tamblyne wrote:
I have a 500 page document with standard quotes. I want to replace
them with custom quotes. Doing CTRL+SHIFT+F to find them all and
then
manually typing a quote character is a tedious process.
There must be an easier way. I tried to record a macro, but it kept
the "standard" quote. I tried Format > Auto-Format > Apply, but
that
messed *everything* up -- though the quotes were fine! LOL!
I'm sure there's a more efficient way to accomplish this. What is
it?
Thanks!
Have you tried: CTRL-F>replace all option?
Dennis
Hi, Dennis -- Yes, that was my first line of attack. But I still
ended up with the standard quotes.
As far as I know, there is no quick way to do this on Version 2. On
Version 3, now in beta, you can do it rather more efficiently by
searching for something like
([^a-zA-Z])"
with Regular Expression turned on, and then Replacing it with
$1“
doing it one at a time, and then searching for
"([^a-zA-Z])
and Replacing it with
”$1
After that, search for the remaining " characters and fix them manually.
Then, of course, you would have to search for apostrophes and left and
right single quotes in a similar process.
Version 3's Regular Expression support is better than Version 2's,
though it is still rather backward compared to the support that has
been around for yonks.
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John W Kennedy
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feminist agenda if you're not sure your leader isn't a transvestite."
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