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Word 365: What causes 'straight' quotes to be changed to 'smart' quotes en masse? How to prevent?

In my job, Word documents often contain XML or CSV snippets. In these, needless to say, the quotation marks need to stay 'straight'. Normally I can paste the snippets in and the quotes will remain '...
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How do I tell Word, which characters are to be used as typographic quote?

I started writing a document in MS-Word 2013, an later continued on another machine which has MS-Word 2019 installed. I've set the option to replace double quotes with typographic quotes. In Word 2013,...
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Within EXCEL MATCH function how can I put the ":" in when I am looking at variable ranges

I am trying to interrogate a whole page looking for the locations of several 0's. I know there is always one 0 in the range I am searching, but it differs in each range. In the example below: - E1 ...
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How to type a (double) quote in Slack for Windows

In most (if not all) Windows apps if I type a (double) quote it does not immediately appear and waits for the next character. If a vowel, it will turn into a diacritic like ü or é, if a space (or ...
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Windows 10 Missing Left Double Quotation Mark Glyph in Character Map

This is so weird. I am simply trying to type an open double quotes symbol in Windows 10 that should look like this: Actually, I'm trying to replace wrongly interpolated quotes symbols in an ANSI ...
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Spaces in filenames, symantics as usual

hello im having an issue with spaces in the %%a attribute inside a Batch FOR. if i have some files in a folder yoda jedi.tif jaba king.tif solo smug.tif the following code, @echo off & ...
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Why double double quotes make string run as function?

A simple function receive two arguments and add and ,then print them. function myprint(){ echo "$1 and $2";} It works. myprint xx yy xx and yy It is a string,bash parse it separately. "myprint ...
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MS Word for Mac: changing smart quote types

In MS Word for Mac (as in MS Word for Windows), there is an option to use so-called ‘smart quotes’, which automatically changes 'straight quotes' into ‘curly ones’. This in itself is a good thing, and ...
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Typing an apostrophe in Photoshop

I have "Use Smart Quotes" enabled in Photoshop. I like it and want to keep it enabled. However, when I need an apostrophe, I get an opening (or in German typography: closing) Smart Quote instead (see "...
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How can I efficiently switch between smart quotes and vertical quotes in Notepad++?

I'm editing an .hmtl document in Notepad++, and I need to be able to efficiently switch between typing smart quotes ( ‘ ’ “ ” ) and vertical quotes ( ' ' " " ). How can I do this? I would like to use ...
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Outlook - convert straight quotes to curly quotes

I often write things in Notepad, with straight quotes. When I copy and paste them into Outlook, I have to laboriously go through and re-type them (using Outlook's smart quotes). I'd love a way to ...
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How does font figure out different starting and ending "quotation mark"?

I don't know very much about how fonts "work", but I know in some fonts the beginning double quotation marks differ from the ending ones. How does that work? What exactly is different in those ...
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How quickly toggle smart quotes in Word 2010?

I'm working on a long technical document that contains numerous displays of computer code. In running text, I want my quotation marks to be curly, which means that Word's "smart quotes" autoformatting-...
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How to disable “smart quotes” in Windows Live Mail?

Windows Live Mail by default changes straight quotation marks (" and ') to typographic quotation marks, aka "smart quotes" (“, ”, ‘ and ’). This often results in the recipient of the email seeing ...
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Smart Quotes and TextMate

Anyone out there with Macs and the TextMate editor know how to make it save files always in ASCII, and never let it turn on smart quotes, smart dashes, and smart copyright symbol? There's a client I ...
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Get rid of "smart quotes" in Outlook

I'm not sure what I did, but the quotes (single and double) in Outlook 2003 have gone from straight vertical quotes to angled quotes. I've looked through Outlook's options and the Autocorrect options, ...
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