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Support and Feedback Technical Resources Additional Resources | Warning: You are viewing this page with an unsupported Web browser. This Web site works best with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Firefox 1.5, or Netscape Navigator 8.0 or later. Learn more about supported browsers. Watch This: Death to curly quotes by auto formatting in Word
Applies to: Microsoft Office Word 2007, Word 2003
December 5, 2007 Doug ThomasWhen publishing for the Web, I often received submissions from writers that had been carefully formatted in plain text (the best way to import articles into an HTML editor). However, curly or smart quotes — those curvaceous quote marks as seen in Microsoft Office Word — do not get reformatted in plain text, and thus are considered errors when text is loaded into the HTML editors. Here's how you can change your defaults in Word to get rid of smart quotes and use plain old straight quote marks instead.
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