Sentences with phrase «smart quotes»

Note to anyone involving themselves in ebook publishing: do NOT use smart quotes or any other form of auto - formatting.

Pressque editors default to curved quotes known as smart quotes, rather than straight quotation marks that are known as non-smart quotations.

If you're trying to take your description all the way to 399 or 400 characters, you may get this error, because if you're copying and pasting your description from Word, and you have smart (curly) quotes enabled, then a cut - and - pasted smart quote counts as more than one character.

By default, Word automatically turns on smart quotes.

For example, it would be nice to have the option to use smart quotes instead of typewriter - style straight ticks, a pet peeve of mine.

As you type, Word automatically changes straight quotation marks to curly quotation marks which are called smart quotes.

The company has made improvements for smart quotes in Word.

(Please say I don't have to use smart quotes.

You can keep bold and italics, and smart quotes and em dashes should translate properly, although they sometimes cause problems.

«Smart quotes» are what are otherwise known as «curly quotes,» and while they do make for a more attractive presentation in your text, some older printers are known to have problems with them.

For example, if you copy text out of Word to paste into a timekeeping app, you'll want to turn off the «smart quotes», since those characters don't always translate well to plain text.

Replace all non-ASCII characters (e.g., bullets, em dashes, en dashes, or (in MS Word) smart quotes) with ASCII characters such as asterisks, hyphens, and standard quotation marks.

Also, don't use any characters that aren't on your keyboard, such as «smart quotes» or mathematical symbols because they won't convert correctly.

Use only keyboard symbols — No smart quotes or mathematical symbols.

Your formatted document will have automatically turned your quotation marks in open - quotes and close - quotes («smart quotes»), which may translate to your plain text editor, but which tend to appear as weird chains of other symbols in emails and on the web.