Find and Replace Special character

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Cletus Stripling

I have a person trying to search a Word document for the quote symbol ( " )
and replace it with a right pointing double arrow (character code 00BB).
This can be found in the Latin-1 subset. It does not want to work.

Any ideas? suggestions?
 
Cletus Stripling said:
I have a person trying to search a Word document for the
quote symbol ( " ) and replace it with a right pointing double
arrow (character code 00BB).
This can be found in the Latin-1 subset. It does not want to work.

Any ideas? suggestions?
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Hi Cletus,

Probably the setting "Tools > AutoCorrect... (tab "AutoFormat while
typing") > Replace straight quotes with smart quotes" is to blame. It
should be unchecked; else Word will put in typographic (smart, curly)
Englisch quotes.

But if you want to put in French quotes, it may be simpler to format the
text as French, and let "Format > AutoFormat" do the work. Disable all the
"Options..." except the one to replace straight quotes with smart quotes.

This will also put in the non-breaking spaces that are customary.

Or try a wildcard search (check "Match wildcards"):
Find what: "([!^13]@)"
Replace with: ^0171^s\1^s^0187

171 and 187 are the codes of the French quotes, and ^s is the non-breaking
space.

Regards,
Klaus
 
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