Step by Step: How to Do Batch Quote Conversion
Posted: 2004-12-22 11:16:16
I'm on day 29 of evaluating NWE.
I started using Word in 1986, and I'm just sick of its hugeness and weirdness.
NWE's mission is compatible with my desires.
But ... I'm not a macro-writer or a grep fiend. I'm sure that if I were, it would be easy to batch-convert straight to curly and curly to straight quotes.
Can someone step me through this?
Or better yet, post a macro somewhere that I could just load?
(And then ship NWE with the appropriate grep as part of the default saved searches? Word X did this write: if one searches for straight quote and replaces with straight quote, the effect depends on the current "QuickFix"-equivalent setting. That is, if one has curlies on, then quote to quote curls them; if one has straights on, it straightens them. Works for both single and double quotes.)
I started using Word in 1986, and I'm just sick of its hugeness and weirdness.
NWE's mission is compatible with my desires.
But ... I'm not a macro-writer or a grep fiend. I'm sure that if I were, it would be easy to batch-convert straight to curly and curly to straight quotes.
Can someone step me through this?
Or better yet, post a macro somewhere that I could just load?
(And then ship NWE with the appropriate grep as part of the default saved searches? Word X did this write: if one searches for straight quote and replaces with straight quote, the effect depends on the current "QuickFix"-equivalent setting. That is, if one has curlies on, then quote to quote curls them; if one has straights on, it straightens them. Works for both single and double quotes.)