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Find and Replace not recognizing apostrophes


Elarionus

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Apostrophes come in at least two forms: straight (like a typewriter ' ), and typographic (curved, like you see in most printed books  ).

You need to use the same one in Find & Replace that you have in the document. You'll find the same with quote marks.

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4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Apostrophes come in at least two forms: straight (like a typewriter ' ), and typographic (curved, like you see in most printed books  ).

You need to use the same one in Find & Replace that you have in the document. You'll find the same with quote marks.

Interesting. When I type an apostrophe into a text box, it's the curved kind, and in the search bar, it's the straight kind. The only way for me to find and replace everything was by copying and pasting from the text box into the search bar.

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6 minutes ago, Elarionus said:

Interesting. When I type an apostrophe into a text box, it's the curved kind, and in the search bar, it's the straight kind. The only way for me to find and replace everything was by copying and pasting from the text box into the search bar.

It is probably curved (which is probably what you want) because of the Preferences, Auto-Correct, Change Straight Quotes to Typographic Quotes.

Yes, you'll probably need to copy/paste to get one, or learn the Windows shortcut key codes to type one if you have a keyboard with a numpad.

-- Walt
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
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