Curly Quotes and Older Text Syles in V2

[Angelika]

Hi there. Question. How do I put auto curly quotes while in designer V1 or V2 while typing instead of straight quotes?

What happened to the default text styles that I had in V1 but are not there in V2? I am currently using a trial in V2. I want to upgrade to V2, but if these styles are not there, I am not. And the curly quotes are in publisher, but not designer.

Thank you very much for any help. 

[Old Bruce]

2 minutes ago, Angelika said:

What happened to the default text styles that I had in V1 but are not there in V2? I am currently using a trial in V2. I want to upgrade to V2, but if these styles are not there, I am not. And the curly quotes are in publisher, but not designer.

Go to Preferences and Miscellaneous and click on the Reset Default Text Styles. This will give you the original defaults. You may be referring to some Text Styles you have made and saved yourself as the Defaults. Make a new document in version one of Publisher and put some text in and use each of your text styles you want/need. Save this. Open it in version 2 and your text styles will be imported.

[walt.farrell]

25 minutes ago, Angelika said:

And the curly quotes are in publisher, but not designer.

Autocorrect is only a function of Publisher, in both V1 and V2, I think. Designer doesn't have it.

[h_d]

As far as I can see, the only way to get correct typographic quotation marks in Designer is to use old-fashioned key combinations rather than 'smart' quotes.

On macOS these are as follows:

Open double quote: option (or alt) plus open square bracket;

Close double quote: shift+option (or alt) plus open square bracket;

Open single quote: option (or alt) plus close square bracket;

Close single quote (and apostrophe): shift+option (or alt) plus close square bracket.

(Back in the day I remember learning these on Aldus Freehand because it wouldn't do smart quotes either. Plus ça change...)

I don't know if they're the same on Windows, hopefully someone will.

 

 

[lacerto]

Curly quotation marks on Windows – if the keyboard has Numpad, then:

• ALT + 0147 for  “
• ALT + 0148 for  ”
• ALT + 0145 for  ‘
• ALT + 0146 for  ’

If not (like often when using laptops), use e.g. free utility like Autohotkey (which starts on my system by pressing WinKey Z), and remap the keys. 
I use Alt 2 for ” and Shift Alt 2 for  “ and WinKey 2 for  ’ and Shift WinKey 2 for  ‘ and, because in Finnish we do not use different opening quotation marks (so if I need them e.g. in English, I use the Shift modifier key).

• +!2::Send {U+201C} ; double quotation mark 66
• !2::Send {U+201D} ; double quotation mark 99
• +#2::Send {U+2018} ; single quotation mark 6
• #2::Send {U+2019} ; single quotation mark 9

Obviously alternative definitions would be required for other national variations like German and French style quotation marks.
Autohotkey has the benefit of being able to remove the scripts from the memory and revert to the default (or an alternative) key mapping.

[Angelika]

Thank you to all who responded to my questions. Sorry for the delay in my thanks. Time slipped away too fast. I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and I wish everyone to have a great New Year ahead. God bless.