How to set straight single quote (apostrophe) as default rather than curly quote (apostrophe)

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
April 8, 2025
3 replies
441 views

I'd like to type straight single quote (vertical apostrophe) rather than a curly apostrophe by default. Aside from unchecking the optinon under preferences > Type > Type Quotes > Use Typographer's Quotes or typing typing with alt + ' for windows or command + ' for mac. Are there other ways that would trigger my single quote to show vertically rather than curly?

Thanks!

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Assuming you want to keep typographic quotes on by default, you can use the following keyboard commands:

Windows Double: Alt-Shift-<quote key>

Windows Single: Alt-<quote key>

Mac Double: Cntl-Shift-<quote key>

Mac Single: Cntl-<quote key>

(I'm not on my Mac at the moment, so I can't test the key. This is from memory...)

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

As Willi has suggested it is possible to turn off Typographers Quotes. To do so go into the Type section of your InDesign Settings/Preferences as shown in the below screenshot:

B

bc_202503Author

Participant

I'd like to add the fact that only all paragrahs have curly quote but only one section comes out as straight quote. Wondering if it has anything to do with paragraph/character styles...any thoughts?

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Turn off typographic quotes. Use the key combination to write curly quotes as if they were letters. It is always possible.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded