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Originally Posted by BetterRed
When I noticed there's now an option not to close Word after a convert I thought I'd take another look at the Word->ePUB converter
It would appear as consequence of doing that Word is stuck on straight quotes, I cannot get it to show smart quotes, nor can I get it to replace straight quotes with curly quotes - despite the following
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Nope, the converter does nothing with quotes. There are three procedures where the quotes come into play. The preparation procedure, the smarten quotes procedure and the Check Dialogue procedure. In all three cases the setting before running the procedure is set again after the procedure. There is actually a toggle button on the ribbon (if you have enabled it) where you can see and quickly turn on/off the automatic replacement of quotes. I don't know why, but sometimes the setting seems document related.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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You are looking at the settings screen. These procedures don't have settings... If you look at the 'configure ribbon', they are there.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I cannot imagine why running the Convert EPUB would have caused this, but I'm almost certain it did. The one unusual thing is that I had several documents open - as I normally do. The Convert converted the one I opened most recently rather than the one I was looking at - so it was a fruitless exercise anyway.
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It is unlikely (but not impossible) that the Convert ePUB would have caused that, since it will do nothing at all with quotes. It is strange that the conversion was done on the last opened document instead of the active one. It is actually much simpler to use the active document than another document... I always use the active document.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
There are two settings in Word that relate to straight/smart quotes (don't ask me why), the one I posted before and this one - which I discovered was OFF.
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I haven't been near the Autocorrect options in years. Does EPUBtools change this during conversion (or anywhere else), if it does then it should probably put it back as it was.
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Yup, there are two. One is for the 'change as you type' and that one you will notice straight away. The other one is only in use when you run the Autoformat procedure of Word itself. Since that procedure usually causes more harm than its worth, it is hardly used at all...
Like I said, when the tools are depending on a certain setting of the parameter, it is switched back at the end.