speech marks

by Paul Garside
1st February 2016

Hello all. I have, throughout my novel used " for speech marks. All the books I have read, I have only just noticed (like you do after how many years?) that all speech is ' and not " which are used for quotation marks. Now my question is... how can I change them all without having to change every single one manually, is there a way a way I can change them all. I'm using office word 365. For those who answered my question on renewing office 365 I couldn't take the chance of losing all my work so I gave in and paid up.

Regards Paul

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Paul, you may find the US punctuation varies to UK. I believe they use double speech marks, wheras we us single.

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Thanks you two. Adrian, I will find that tool it looks like it may come in handy for other things as well.

Jonathan, I was taught the same as you, that is why I just carried on. Hey ho, it's one dilemma after another lol. Thank you both again.

PS I do hope you are fully recovered after the accident Jonathan and I hope they sort your car out without any problems.

Regards Paul.

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Microsoft Word has some useful tools.

One is called - Replace.

You put the punctuation or word you don't want in the the box - Find.

Then put the new punctuation or word in the box - Replace.

Click the box Replace All, and all the punctuation or words will be changed throughout your manuscript.

I hope that helps.

Good luck.

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