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Curly Quotation Marks

Is there a way of making quotation marks or apostophes appear as 'curly' marks in lyrics, as in (eg) Word? I've tried importing from Word into the lyric editor but it converts them back to 'straight' marks.

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Reply #1 –
 
Copy/paste from Character Map should work, AFAIK.
 

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Or alt + 0145 to 0148 (numeric keypad).

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Just for the record: When you type an apostrophe or quotation mark from your keyboard, is is entered as only one kind. But some programs (such as Word) are able to intelligently determine usage, and substitute with the curly kind left/right depending on context. This is a feature that can be turned on or off, and sometimes it makes mistakes. When the substitution is made, the program changes the character you typed to an un-typeable character found elsewhere in the font. But the change may or may not be hard-coded in the document. If it is not hard-coded, then copy/paste won't transfer the curly quotes, because there are not really "there." That is not a problem with NWC. The above-described techniques are user methods for hard-coding curly quotes.

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How do you type an apostrophe?Ihave a compaq keyboard.

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Some of the things like @, ', ", #, \, | and so on are in different places on American and British keyboards.  When you load (e.g.) Windows 98 onto your hard drive, it gives you the American keyboard layout by default.  You need to go into Settings/Control Panel/Keyboard/Language and select the language appropriate to your keyboard.  Then you should be able to type the apostrophe using the key that shows it!
 

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Reply 2 says it neatly, albeit a bit on the compact side.
If you have a British keyboard-layout, you don't want Windows to think it's American, or French, or Spanish. Keep your keyboard layout as it is. This is what you do (again, I refer to reply nr. 2): if you want an opening quote, hold down Alt, press 0 1 4 5 on your numeric keypad, release Alt. Likewise, 0146, 0147 and 0148 produce closing quote, opening double quote, and closing double quote. Never fails, AFAIK, and is independent of your version of Windows.
Rob.