NOTE: It’s easier to copy a curly quote from the main Word document and paste it into the Find.

Note: This may not work-if it doesn’t, try (‘)(*)(‘) as the Find, but be careful when replacing as a single quote mark is also used as an apostrophe. Case 4: Single curly quotesįor those preferring to use ACSII codes, an opening single straight quote mark is ^0145, and a closing single straight quote mark is ^0146. Don’t forget to copy an opening one for the left part of the Find string, and a closing quote for the right part.

Case 3: Double curly quotesįor those preferring to use ACSII codes, an opening double curly quote mark is ^0147 and a closing one is ^0148. Case 2: Single straight quotesįor those preferring to use ACSII codes, a single straight quote mark is ^039.

all the double and single straight quotes here DO NOT display correctly, so DO NOT copy/paste from here-instead, type the quote marks in directly from your keyboardįor those preferring to use ACSII codes, a double straight quote mark is ^034.

for the italics, when you’re in the Replace field, select Format > Font> and choose Italic.

you must have Use wildcards checked in the advanced Find and Replace dialog box.

It also won’t catch more than one word inside the quote marks, and I don’t have an easy solution for that. period, comma) at the end, such as “term.” I’ve added alternatives to deal with these situations. This was a relatively easy task using wildcards in Word’s find and replace, but there are a couple of ‘gotchas’-it won’t catch anything in curly (smart) quotes or inside single quote marks (straight or curly), or if there’s US-style punctuation (e.g. For example, I wanted “term” to become term. I wanted to remove the quote marks and italicise the term. All special terms in a Word document I worked on were surrounded by straight double quote marks.

Shortcut for italics in microsoft word