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Originally Posted by horseyride
Is there any easy way to remove smart quotes (translate them into straight quotes) from a text file? I tried bookdesigner which cleans up lots of stuff, but it leaves those in, as far as I can tell....Is there an option I'm missing to remove that and kill em-dashes as well? thanks
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To remove the smart quotes, just copy the quote and do a search/replace with a straight quote. Do it twice. Once for each direction. And while you are at it, might as well do a set of search/replaces for smart apostrophes as well.