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I have a question about MS word 2007. My hard drive recently crashed and I replaced it. No biggy, right? Wrong. Anyway, I had to re-install all my software, including MS Word. The problem is, suddenly my font, Times New Roman, which is the same font I've always used, has a different design for the quote. Strange. So now when I edit any of my writing, the quotes look different. I've tried selecting the whole document and changing the font back and forth from Times New Roman to something else and back again (because I like Times New Roman) but it won't change the old quotes to look like the new quotes and I can't change the new quotes to look like the old quotes.

Ugh, I'm getting a headache.

If I can't change them by selecting all, then I'm going to have to go through every MS and change each little quote mark individually, which will take forever.

Any suggestions?

Highlight all the text in the manuscript, use find and replace to change all the quote marks to something you know isn't in the manuscript - like a + sign. Choose the replace automatically or replace all option.

Then change every plus sign back to the quote using the same process. Just a few clicks for each MS.

Hey, that was such a good idea. Worked like a charm. You are so brilliant. Thank you, Paul.

My pleasure :)

You're just so fabby, Paul. Have another beer :)