Hello,

I'm finding hard to record a working macro in Word2000, that would
change smart quotes "" with another smart quotes ,," (ALT+0132 and
ALT+0147 or ChrW(8220) and ChrW(8222))

Maybe someone could help me on this?

Thank you very much,

Sarunas

You may be able to do this with the Replace function, not a macro. Try
copying "" into Find what, and ,, into replace with. Try it on a couple of
quotes; if it works, use Replace all.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I'm finding hard to record a working macro in Word2000, that would
> change smart quotes "" with another smart quotes ,," (ALT+0132 and
> ALT+0147 or ChrW(8220) and ChrW(8222))
>
> Maybe someone could help me on this?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Sarunas
>

The syntax is to use ^0132 or ^0147

See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm finding hard to record a working macro in Word2000, that would
> change smart quotes "" with another smart quotes ,," (ALT+0132 and
> ALT+0147 or ChrW(8220) and ChrW(8222))
>
> Maybe someone could help me on this?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Sarunas

Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything works
fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this proces using a
macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to upgrade to an Office
2003. It has no problem at this point.

Thanks

The macro recorder doesn't always work as planned - and it's no better in
Word 2003. What *exactly* do you want to replace with what?

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything works
> fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this proces using
> a macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to upgrade to an Office
> 2003. It has no problem at this point.
>
> Thanks

Well, in my region (Europe --> Lithuania) office 2003 automaticly
converts smart quotes " " with other smart quotes used in my native
language ,, " (ALT+0132 and ALT+0147).
So all I need to do, is to record a macro, that would search a first
quote " and would replace it with ,, , then search for closing quote
in an sentence and replace it with " (closing quotes are different when
using combination ALT+0147).
And that would be all the macro should be able to do.
Because when you have 100 of word pages with qoutes like this "",
there's a waste of time in finding and replacing them using Replace
dialog. That's why I need a macro.

Sarunas

Graham Mayor wrote:
> The macro recorder doesn't always work as planned - and it's no better in
> Word 2003. What *exactly* do you want to replace with what?
>
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>
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>
>
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything works
> > fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this proces using
> > a macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to upgrade to an Office
> > 2003. It has no problem at this point.
> >
> > Thanks

Unless I have completely misunderstood your requirement.

You can stop Word converting ordinary quotes to smart quotes at tools >
autocorrect options > autoformat as you type.

alternatively

You can autoformat and insert your country's smart quote settings by tools >
autocorrect options > autoformat and set the smart quote preference. You
don't need a macro to do that. If however the autoformatting inserts the
wrong style of smart quote, then you can replace those by searching for eg
^0132


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Sarunas wrote:
> Well, in my region (Europe --> Lithuania) office 2003 automaticly
> converts smart quotes " " with other smart quotes used in my native
> language ,, " (ALT+0132 and ALT+0147).
> So all I need to do, is to record a macro, that would search a first
> quote " and would replace it with ,, , then search for closing quote
> in an sentence and replace it with " (closing quotes are different
> when using combination ALT+0147).
> And that would be all the macro should be able to do.
> Because when you have 100 of word pages with qoutes like this "",
> there's a waste of time in finding and replacing them using Replace
> dialog. That's why I need a macro.
>
> Sarunas
>
> Graham Mayor wrote:
>> The macro recorder doesn't always work as planned - and it's no
>> better in Word 2003. What *exactly* do you want to replace with what?
>>
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>> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>> Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything
>>> works fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this
>>> proces using a macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to
>>> upgrade to an Office 2003. It has no problem at this point.
>>>
>>> Thanks

In the past, I could have sworn that changing the document language and then
just replacing " with " would do the trick, but when I tried that yesterday,
it didn't work.

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"Graham Mayor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Unless I have completely misunderstood your requirement.
>
> You can stop Word converting ordinary quotes to smart quotes at tools >
> autocorrect options > autoformat as you type.
>
> alternatively
>
> You can autoformat and insert your country's smart quote settings by tools
>
> autocorrect options > autoformat and set the smart quote preference. You
> don't need a macro to do that. If however the autoformatting inserts the
> wrong style of smart quote, then you can replace those by searching for eg
> ^0132
>
>
> --
> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>
> My web site www.gmayor.com
> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>
>
> Sarunas wrote:
> > Well, in my region (Europe --> Lithuania) office 2003 automaticly
> > converts smart quotes " " with other smart quotes used in my native
> > language ,, " (ALT+0132 and ALT+0147).
> > So all I need to do, is to record a macro, that would search a first
> > quote " and would replace it with ,, , then search for closing quote
> > in an sentence and replace it with " (closing quotes are different
> > when using combination ALT+0147).
> > And that would be all the macro should be able to do.
> > Because when you have 100 of word pages with qoutes like this "",
> > there's a waste of time in finding and replacing them using Replace
> > dialog. That's why I need a macro.
> >
> > Sarunas
> >
> > Graham Mayor wrote:
> >> The macro recorder doesn't always work as planned - and it's no
> >> better in Word 2003. What *exactly* do you want to replace with what?
> >>
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> >>
> >> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> >>> Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything
> >>> works fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this
> >>> proces using a macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to
> >>> upgrade to an Office 2003. It has no problem at this point.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
>
>

Autoformat works for me provided the language of the text is set as
Lithuanian - in fact I had to do this to see what the OP meant. I take it
you didn't overlook the obvious and had the autocorrect as you type option
to replace smart quotes switched off - as I normally have?

Changing it back to English is a little more fun. You would need a wildcard
replacement of
[^0132^0147]
with
"
and then run Autoformat again if you need English smart quotes.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
> In the past, I could have sworn that changing the document language
> and then just replacing " with " would do the trick, but when I tried
> that yesterday, it didn't work.
>
>
> "Graham Mayor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Unless I have completely misunderstood your requirement.
>>
>> You can stop Word converting ordinary quotes to smart quotes at
>> tools > autocorrect options > autoformat as you type.
>>
>> alternatively
>>
>> You can autoformat and insert your country's smart quote settings by
>> tools
>>
>> autocorrect options > autoformat and set the smart quote preference.
>> You don't need a macro to do that. If however the autoformatting
>> inserts the wrong style of smart quote, then you can replace those
>> by searching for eg ^0132
>>
>>
>> --
>> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>>
>> My web site www.gmayor.com
>> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
>> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>>
>>
>> Sarunas wrote:
>>> Well, in my region (Europe --> Lithuania) office 2003 automaticly
>>> converts smart quotes " " with other smart quotes used in my native
>>> language ,, " (ALT+0132 and ALT+0147).
>>> So all I need to do, is to record a macro, that would search a first
>>> quote " and would replace it with ,, , then search for closing quote
>>> in an sentence and replace it with " (closing quotes are different
>>> when using combination ALT+0147).
>>> And that would be all the macro should be able to do.
>>> Because when you have 100 of word pages with qoutes like this "",
>>> there's a waste of time in finding and replacing them using Replace
>>> dialog. That's why I need a macro.
>>>
>>> Sarunas
>>>
>>> Graham Mayor wrote:
>>>> The macro recorder doesn't always work as planned - and it's no
>>>> better in Word 2003. What *exactly* do you want to replace with
>>>> what?
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>>>>
>>>> My web site www.gmayor.com
>>>> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>>>> Yes, I know that using Replace function (not a macro) everything
>>>>> works fine. But here's a problem, thah I need to automate this
>>>>> proces using a macro. A I'm stuck here I believe i need to
>>>>> upgrade to an Office 2003. It has no problem at this point.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks