Turn Off Smart Quotes In Microsoft Word

Smart quotes are the bane of online writers. If you have ne'er detected of them and have already tried your hand at submitting writing for online publication, you are probably already closely acquainted with with them without even knowing it. If you are fortunate enough to learn of this issue early it will not present much of a problem as it is an easy data format fix. If however, you have already written tons of smart quote troubled text you are hoping to upload onto the web, matters can get a bit more complicated.

So what are Smart Quotes?

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In short, smart quotes or "crisp quotes" are the default quotation Simon Marks and apostrophes that Microsoft Word uses. Instead of using standard straight quotes, or "dumb quotes", Word automatically reformats them and turns them into the crisp nuisances we speak of here.

If you do not fix this issue before you upload your nice, new, shiny clause to the cyberspace, it will not look the way you wrote it. Most likely what will happen is that every instance where an apostrophe or quotation Simon Marks are used will be turned into a interrogation point or other ugly character. The result will be a very unprofessional, unfinished looking clause and a very discomfited writer.

How to Get Rid of Smart Quotes

Thankfully this is an extremely easy fix. If you are using Microsoft Office 2007 here are the steps:

1)

Click on the Office button in the upper left corner of your screen. Scroll down to Word Options (at the bottom of the box). Click it. Scroll down to the "proofing" selection in the new windowpane that just opened up, click it.

2)

Now, click on Autocorrect Options. A new windowpane will open up. Browse the tabs at the top of the box and click on AutoFormat. You will see the word "replace" with six check boxes below it. The first one is the one you want. It should say "straight quotes" with "smart quotes". Uncheck this box. If you like you can also uncheck the rest of the boxes save the last one titled "cyberspace and network paths with hyperlinks" to further uncomplicated any cyberspace data format issues that you may experience.

3)

You are nearly done. Go back up to the tabs at the top of the box and click on the one that says AutoFormat As You Type. Now simply do the exact same matter you did in step 2 unchecking all of the same boxes here.

What if I Already Have Articles Written with Smart Quotes?

If you have already transcription using Microsoft Word with the smart quote option on I will tell you what I did. There may be an easier way to do this but this seemed the easiest way to me. I simply used the find feature (just hold ctrl and hit F) in Word to find all of the apostrophes in my clause, then all of the quotation Simon Marks. This way the program will bring you to each one, one at a time, and you can deal with them as they come. This will save you the trouble of scouring through your clauses by hand trying to pick out all apostrophe.

That is about all there is to say about smart quotes and what to do about them. I just hope you were able to find this information before smart quotes were able to cause you overmuch trouble. That's all for now!