How do I stop the apostrophe turning into a comma intermittently?

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I am typing a list with the dates as '96, but intermittently the apostrophe
changes to a comma.
 
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Cindy M -WordMVP-

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I am typing a list with the dates as '96, but intermittently the apostrophe
changes to a comma.
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That would most likely be AutoFormat as you type, the "smart quotes" option.
To tell you exactly where to find this, we'd have to know the version of Word
involved; but I can tell you it would be somewhere in the Tools menu.

Cindy Meister
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