What Are Smart Quotes?

This feature automatically changes straight quotation marks to typographers quotes as you pop in.

The curlysmart quotation markscurl toward the text they precede and away from the text they follow.

Word with the Options button highlighted

Select theFiletab and chooseOptionsto open theWord Optionswindow.

SelectAutoCorrect Optionsto open theAutoCorrectdialog box.

Select theAutoFormat As You Typetab.

Microsoft Word options with the Proofing heading highlighted

This setting doesn’t affectquotation marksthat currently exist in the document.

SelectOKto save the changes and shut the dialog boxes.

This procedure won’t work if you haven’t set the AutoCorrect setting to correct straight to smart quotes.

Word options with the AutoCorrect tab highlighted

Press theCtrl+Hshortcut key to open theFind and Replacedialog box.

Enter"in both theFind whatandReplace withboxes.

SelectReplace Allto convert all quotation marks in the document to your preferred style.

Autoformat as You Type tab in Word’s Proofing settings

Quotation marks options in Word Proofing settings

Find and Replace in Word

Find/Replace in Word with Replace All button highlighted