Word should have a quotation marks button (like bold or underline)

[andigee]

I was doing a section that needed quotation marks ("...") and was wondering
why Word doesn't have a button that does that. You know, highlight a
sentence and (instead of clicking bold or underline) you click quotes.

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[Jay Freedman]

I was doing a section that needed quotation marks ("...") and was wondering
why Word doesn't have a button that does that. You know, highlight a
sentence and (instead of clicking bold or underline) you click quotes.

Things like this are why Word has a macro language (and notice that
you did post in the VBA.general newsgroup, which is devoted to macro
programming).

This little macro adds curly ('smart') quotes around the selection:

Sub EncloseQuotes()
With Selection
.InsertBefore Chr$(147)
.InsertAfter Chr$(148)
End With
End Sub

If you want straight quotes instead, replace both numbers with 34.

To make a toolbar button to run the macro, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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