Before we explain the difference between smart quotes and dumb quotes, let’s cop to something. Here at Co.Design, we’re not exactly fastidious for using typographically correct quotation marks ...

There's a way to override the smart quotes and impose a proper apostrophe in these situations (on a Mac, you type option-shift-close-bracket), but an increasing number of writers, editors, and ...

By the way, if you ever want to have straight quotes in a document without turning off the "smart quote" feature altogether, just hit ctrl-Z (undo) after you type the quote and Word curls it; that ...

Uncheck "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" in Word's AutoFormat As You Type options to get your document ready for the Web. Next, click Edit*Replace in Word 2003, or the Home tab and then the ...

However, I found that Microsoft's smart quotes are not recognised as the single quote character in the regular expression. So I tested the string for ascii values and got this:<BR><BR>d:100, i ...