Inserting plain quotation marks

Using FM8 on Windows XP.

When typing quotation marks in FM, they are automatically converted into "typographic", er, “typographic” quotation marks.

The replacement depends on settings in maker.ini.

This is good, but for some code descriptions I need plain double quotes. Is there a keyboard shortcut I could use?

[Alt]+34 is no different from using the actual quote key.

I want to avoid my workaround, which is typing a quote in Notepad and copying it into FM.

Thanks

Johannes

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Correct answer Michael_Müller-Hillebrand

Johannes,

press the Esc key before hitting the quote key and you are done.

It is indeed mentioned in the help topic Entering special characters.

- Michael

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Johannes,

press the Esc key before hitting the quote key and you are done.

It is indeed mentioned in the help topic Entering special characters.

- Michael

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MMH: press the Esc key before hitting the quote key and you are done.

As I recall, that still won't keep the spell checker from complaining, unless you take further steps.

What we do is use a variable for that character, defined as \x22

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