In Microsoft Word (2003), how can I turn off the automatic conversion of double-quotes within an area?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051901241033.aspx Microsoft Word automatically changes straight quotation marks ( ‘ or ” ) to curly (smart or typographer’s) quotes ( or ) as you type. To turn this feature on or off: On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab. Under Replace as you type, select or clear the “Straight quotes” with “smart quotes” check box. Note You can find and replace all instances of single or double curly quotes with straight quotes in your document. To do this, clear the “Straight quotes” with “smart quotes” check box on the AutoFormat As You Type tab. On the Edit menu, click Replace. In both the Find what and Replace with boxes, type ‘ or “, and then click Find Next or Replace All. To replace all straight quotes with curly quotes, select the “Straight quotes” with “smart quotes” check box, and repeat the find and replace pr
The best solution I could find was to create a quick Macro to turn AutoCorrect smart-quotes on and off. (This is probably obvious to you, but just to be complete, I should include how to do that: choose the “Tools->Macros->Record New Macro” menu option. Start a macro, name it “Disable Smart Quotes”, then go to “Tools->Autocorrect Options”, click the AutoFormat as you type tab, then uncheck the “Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes” box. Click OK, stop recording the macro, and you’re done! Now to get it on to the menu bar choose Tools->Customize->Macros, find your new macro, and drag it onto a toolbar. Repeat this whole process in reverse to create a second macro to turn it back on.) You’d probably already thought of that approach, so I don’t have a very clever answer. But I do have something useful to add! It isn’t that exact problem, but it’s a related one: when inserting blocks of code, it’s annoying that the spell-checker hilights all sorts of words in your code. You can turn off the s
