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Originally Posted by Patricia
1. Search for double quotes (used for internal quotations). Replace with @ or # as a placeholder.
2. Replace single-quote plus space, and space plus single quote with doublequotes and spaces.
3. Replace @ or # with single-quotes.
4. Then check the lot, just in case. (Sometimes authors add punctuation immediately after closing a quotation.)
I did all this in Word, then put the edited version into Book Designer.
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That's about what I'm considering, with the complication that the quote marks are often inside the punctuation. But I can search for quote-comma-space, quote-question-space, and quote-period-space instead of just quote-space.
I'm just annoyed that it's disrupting the spellcheck; FineReader stops on all the words with an apostrophe at the end to ask me if it's misspelled. And FR's search-and-replace is much more limited than Word's; I don't want to do the replacing there.