On 2021-09-11 5:32 pm, Kira Garvie wrote:
Following up on this question from thursday, how do I insert the curly
quotes? I copied them from your email but would like to know how to do them
myself!

If you are running Windows, you hold down ALT, type a series of numbers on the numpad, and then release ALT to input the specified character. For instance, here are the codes for double quotation marks:

ALT+0147 → “ (Left double quotation mark)
ALT+0148 → ” (Right double quotation mark)

There are tables of codes online, but you can also use the Character Map (charmap.exe) program. Find and select a character, and the status bar will list its Alt+Numpad code if supported. Keep a cheat sheet nearby with the ones you use most often; though it should not take long before muscle memory takes over. In my work, I type "blessèd" enough that I have ALT+0232 memorized.


-- Aaron Hill

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