Thread: How to find and replace text?
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Old 02-13-2020, 09:08 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by JLID10 View Post
I am wondering if there is a quick way in calibre to find and replace all of the curly quotes with straight ones. I noticed there is a tool called "smarten punctuation" but it does the opposite of what I need it to do.
Also, if you're doing a Calibre conversion, under Look & Feel > Text, there's a little checkbox for UnSmarten Punctuation.

That will convert your book and change all smart quotes into their dumb equivalents.

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Originally Posted by JLID10 View Post
Due to some issues with my ereader, I have to format the quote marks on my ebooks to be straight (') and not curly (’).
May I ask what the exact issue is?
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