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Quotation marks are upsidedown

Anonymous
2011-05-22T20:21:16+00:00

When I attempt to incert quaotation marks the first set is is mirrored or like upside-down.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-05-22T20:46:24+00:00

    If they look like the single and double quote examples near the top right of the following link, that is how they should be:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark  Also note the following quotation copied from that link:  "Depending on the typeface, opening and closing quotation marks may be identical in form (called vertical, straight, or typewriter quotation marks), or may be distinctly left-handed and right-handed (typographic or, colloquially, curly quotation marks)."

    If that is not what you want, in most word processor applications you can turn it off by looking for quote marks or something similar in Autocorrect or Autocorrection.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-11-06T05:00:56+00:00

    Yeah, turning off Smart Quotes corrects this upside-down quotation mark problem...but it also turns off Smart Quotes. I've been using Smart Quotes for years, and now suddenly I got this problem. Isn't Word 2010 set up to give Smart Quotes that aren't upside down quotes? If not, what's the point of the feature?

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-06-07T00:46:02+00:00

    Turning the "smart quote" option off does the trick. I guess this is why they are "smart quotes", and not smart quotes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-06-07T00:11:10+00:00

    Well, i have the same problem - drives me CRAZY, and it is NOT how quotation marks should appear. They are completely upside down and backwards and at the bottom edge of the line instead of the top. It only happens inside the comments boxes - i.e. using the comment feature to insert comments in the margin of a document.   „See what I mean“ ?

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