OT, MS word question

i've been trying to blog some old MS word documents but i've been
having a lot of problems globally replacing apostrophes, see here:

http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/texts/apostrophe.html

the one i want--which web pages and blogs etc. will recognize--is the
u0027. But word automatically changes it to the other--blog invisible--
character no matter what i try.... can anybody help me with
this?

thanks, dan

Hey Dan, I found this in the Word help, hope it's what you need:

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Change curly quotes to straight quotes and vice versa
Microsoft Word automatically changes straight quotation marks ( ' or " ) to curly (smart or typographer's) quotes ( or ) as you type.

To turn this feature on or off:

On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
Under Replace as you type, select or clear the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box.
Note You can find and replace all instances of single or double curly quotes with straight quotes in your document. To do this, clear the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box on the AutoFormat As You Type tab. On the Edit menu, click Replace. In both the Find what and Replace with boxes, type ' or ", and then click Find Next or Replace All.

To replace all straight quotes with curly quotes, select the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box, and repeat the find and replace procedure.

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- Dave

daniel_anthony_stearns wrote:
> i've been trying to blog some old MS word documents but i've been > having a lot of problems globally replacing apostrophes, see here: > > http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/texts/apostrophe.html > > the one i want--which web pages and blogs etc. will recognize--is the > u0027. But word automatically changes it to the other--blog invisible--
> character no matter what i try.... can anybody help me with > this? > > thanks, dan
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