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HOW TO CONVERT FROM STRAIGHT TO TYPOGRAPHER’S QUOTES IN AFFINITY DESIGNERfrom Book Design Made Simple by Fiona Raven and Glenna CollettThis is a smart and easy function in Adobe InDesign and is accomplished through a filter as a Word document is imported. Users have been crying out for it in Publisher, but it’s just not there yet (as of March, 2020). While we wait, the process is a bit difficult.Follow the instructions below to convert quotation marks if your text is already in Publisher. If you’re still working in Word, skip this and look below.In Affinity PublisherPut your cursor at the beginning of the text.Click on the Find and Replace (“FaR”) tab.Type (or copy and paste) a straight quotation mark into the Find field.Type the typographer’s (curly) opening quotation mark (“, which is typed Alt/Opt + [?) in the Replace field.Click on Find, and a list of all instances appears below (this is a great feature!). Now go through the entire text (double-clicking on each item in the list to jump from one instance to the next, or simply ignoring the list—it works either way), replacing the opening quotes and skipping the ones that should be closing quotation marks.Start again at the beginning of the text and repeat the entire process, finding the remaining straight quotes and replacing them with the curly closing quotation marks (Alt/Opt + Shift + [?).For single opening and closing quotation marks, follow these instructions the same way. You’ll have to watch out for apostrophes as you go, so replace single quotation marks one at a time. Laborious.But you can easily replace straight quotes with curly ones all at the same time in Word, before you place your text in Publisher.In Microsoft WordPut your cursor at the beginning of the text.Go to Edit > Find > Advanced Find and Replace.Type (or copy and paste) a straight quotation mark into the Find field.Click the Replace tab and type a simple double quotation mark (Shift + ”) in the Replace field. Word intelligently replaces all the quotation marks in one step, and each one curls in the correct direction!For single opening and closing quotation marks, follow the instructions almost the same way. Word is not as smart about distinguishing single quotation marks from apostrophes, so go through the document slowly, replacing these one at a time.If you can remember to do this before you place your text in Publisher, you’ll be all set. ................
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