User Guide

Chapter 8246
To turn on the Smart Quotes option:
1 Display text preferences by doing one of the following:
• In Windows, press Control+U, then click the Text tab.
• On the Macintosh, press Command+U, then click the Text category.
2 Select Smart Quotes and select an option from the pop-up menu beside it:
• The first set of quotations marks is commonly used in Dutch, English, Italian, and Spanish.
• Double right quotation marks are commonly used in Danish, Finnish, and Swedish.
• The first set of low-high quotation marks is commonly used in Czech and German.
• The second set of low-high quotation marks is standard in Hungarian and Polish to mark a
quote within a quote.
• Chevron quotation marks appear as an alternative to curved quotation marks in
French, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish.
• Reverse chevrons indicate a quote within a quote in Danish, German, and Hungarian.
Note: To use more than one type of smart quote in a document, you must change the selection in the Smart
Quotes pop-up menu in text preferences before typing the new quotation mark.
3 Click OK.
To type straight quotation marks when Smart Quotes is turned on:
Hold down Control and press the single-quote (’) or double-quote (") key.
Note: On some international keyboards, pressing the Control key does not override the Smart Quotes preference.