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I can not find out how to set quotation marks outside the paragraph instead of them being seen as a character and part of the paragraph, especially unsitely in Justified text.  

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Would Optical Alignment do what you want? (See "Help" for details.)

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7 hours ago, Chris26 said:

... instead of them being seen as a character...

Not really sure what you mean because quotation marks are characters, & there are relatively few fonts that do not include at least one kind of them, like single or double quotes & the various 'curly' & straight forms.

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It sounds like you're looking for what is called "hanging punctuation". There's a thread about it in the V1 section. It looks like optical alignment is the solution, as PaulEC suggested.

I haven't looked into it in Publisher yet. It's an advanced refinement for text settings, and a valuable one, but it can be overdone. It looks like Optical Alignment will allow you to do what is called "half hanging"--having the punctation mark extend only partly outside the text block, so that, while there's no notch (so to speak) of white space under the punctuation mark that is prominent enough to disturb the impression of an even margin, neither is there a black blotch extending into the margin prominent enough to do the same. 

 


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