GMNIMan

Thanks, I could not have put it better myself.

Oh, I have already been using the AutoCorrect settings to instantly make the change as you type along. The Preflight is new to me, but not much of a help when you have a hundred pages of text I grab from the web. Can be extremely tedious. However, it does help to use on short documents. Thanks for your help and suggestions, and I will definitely be using this technique. For large documents, I will stick to the MS Word way and re-import back to Affinity Publisher when done. We need to be resourceful and adapt to the limitations of our tools. If the Affinity suite of applications does not have a better Find and Replace functionality in the next version update of Affinity, I will skip the upgrade and wait until they do.

I managed to get Preflight to check for Straight Quotes, but the Fix button does not appear.

I have been having this problem of finding and replacing straight quotes with curly quotes in Affinity Publisher from the very beginning. In the end, I resorted to using MS Word to do the find and Replace, then reimport back to Affinity Publisher after everything was fine and proper. Affinity really needs to look into this weakness, for their software to be fully accepted as a serious professional DTP software. Affinity Publisher desperately needs to be a truly standalone application, and not have to depend on Microsoft to do part of their dirty work for them. If the Microsoft suite of editing software can do this task without even raising a sweat, I cannot understand why Affinity just cannot seem to get it right. We are already in version 2.2 and still no improvement.

Please ensure that the Protect Alpha on the context bar on top is not checked.