Dreamweaver - Microsoft Word Smart Quotes

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Microsoft Word Smart Quotes

bstoppel

2005-09-14, 7:30 pm

We have a lot of documents that are produced in MS Word that need to be
webified. When typing a document in Word, it converts characters like ', " -
(apostrophes, quotes, and dashes) into "Smart Quotes." They look pretty when in
word, but they break when posted to the web. The documents are produced by a
large variety of people so trying to solve the issue within MS Word by
disabling Smart Quotes is not an appropriate solution. What I need to be able
to do is paste the content into one of our templates or new page and have the
bad characters automatically convert to the normal or straight characters.

Murray *TMM*

2005-09-14, 7:32 pm

You will need to do a Find and Replace after bringing those documents into
DW.

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"bstoppel" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> We have a lot of documents that are produced in MS Word that need to be
> webified. When typing a document in Word, it converts characters like ',
> " -
> (apostrophes, quotes, and dashes) into "Smart Quotes." They look pretty
> when in
> word, but they break when posted to the web. The documents are produced by
> a
> large variety of people so trying to solve the issue within MS Word by
> disabling Smart Quotes is not an appropriate solution. What I need to be
> able
> to do is paste the content into one of our templates or new page and have
> the
> bad characters automatically convert to the normal or straight characters.
>

Mad Dog

2005-09-14, 7:33 pm

.....or save it as a TEXT file, then cut and paste.

.....or paste it into Notepad, then cut and paste into DW.

bstoppel wrote:
> We have a lot of documents that are produced in MS Word that need to
> be webified. When typing a document in Word, it converts characters
> like ', " - (apostrophes, quotes, and dashes) into "Smart Quotes."
> They look pretty when in word, but they break when posted to the web.
> The documents are produced by a large variety of people so trying to
> solve the issue within MS Word by disabling Smart Quotes is not an
> appropriate solution. What I need to be able to do is paste the
> content into one of our templates or new page and have the bad
> characters automatically convert to the normal or straight
> characters.