Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

[Stuart Rogers]

Theresa de Valence wrote:
> Hello Framers,
> 
> I need to paste my portions of a book into Access which is unhappy about
> smart quotes. Could anyone tell me how to search/replace those smart
> quotes as regular quotes?
> 

Theresa,

In the Find dialog box, search for \` and replace with \g
and search for \' and replace with \g

The backslash plus grave accent finds smart left quotes, and the 
backslash plus apostrophe finds smart right quotes.  The backslash g is 
a non-smart (stupid?) regular double quote.

HTH,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

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