Quotation marks

J

JulieMae

When I type quotation marks using microsoft word, they come out curly and the
right quotation mark is upside down. I want regular straight quotation marks.
How do I get them? I want them to look like this " " but they don't. They
come out different as I said above. What can I do to rectify this? Thanks,
JulieMae
 
A

AA2e72E

Tools + Autocorrect and then on the AutoFormat as you type, clear the
'Straight quotes with smart quotes' option.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

If you *always* want straight quotation marks (because you're using Courier
New or because you're creating code), clear the "'Straight quotes' with
'smart quotes'" check box on the AutoFormat As You Type tab of Tools |
AutoCorrect (AutoCorrect Options in Word 2002/2003). If you just want them
occasionally, press Ctrl+Z (Undo) to reverse the correction and revert the
curly quotes to straight quotes.
 
J

JulieMae

Thank you. It worked! JulieMae

AA2e72E said:
Tools + Autocorrect and then on the AutoFormat as you type, clear the
'Straight quotes with smart quotes' option.
 
M

Mary jane

It is amazing how many posts relate to this reversed curly quote issue.
Straight quotes are an answer yes, but why can't you use curly quotes and
have them come out correctly? No one seems to be able to solve this riddle,
maybe an issue to send to Microsoft for programming?
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

"Upside-down" is a subjective description. Quotation marks vary depending on
font, but ordinarily the closing quote character will be a 180-degree
rotation of the opening quote character (rotated, not flipped horizontally).
 
M

MJ

Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
If you *always* want straight quotation marks (because you're using Courier
New or because you're creating code), clear the "'Straight quotes' with
'smart quotes'" check box on the AutoFormat As You Type tab of Tools |
AutoCorrect (AutoCorrect Options in Word 2002/2003). If you just want them
occasionally, press Ctrl+Z (Undo) to reverse the correction and revert the
curly quotes to straight quotes.
o I get them? I want them to look like this " " but they don't.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Could it be that your macro changes the settings in AutoFormat and not
AutoFormat As You Type?
 
F

Frustrated College Student Abroad

I was having this problem just now and have chosen to use the straight
quotation marks but thought I'd copy paste an example of the issue I'm having
clarify. I made sure there are no unclosed quotations elsewhere in the text
so I have no clue why it is looking like this... see below.


I am writing a sentence and now „I want to quote something“ but obviously
these quotes don’t look correct!
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Okay, these are a different matter and are caused by having the wrong
language (perhaps German) applied to the text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

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