close quotation mark at the beginning of a sentence

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June 8, 2025
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I need to put a closed quotation mark at the beginning of a sentence to indicate something special. I believe there is a way to do this, but can't find it.

‘bhūvann āṅgubhartarāḥ

The opening mark has to be closed, not open.

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Correct answer Scott Falkner

You could type "a" and let InDesign smartify the quotes as you type them, then delete the first two charcters. If you are using a Mac you can type Option Shift ].

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Yes. You can easily invoke the character directly:

As @Scott Falkner has said for Mac, Option + Shift + ] will give you a sIngle closing quote. On a Win: Alt + Shift + ]

(Auto smart quotes assume that a quote added after a space before a letter should be an opening single/double quote.)

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Grundoon GroundhogAuthor

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Option + shift + quote mark gives Æ. But someone made suggestion that works. Thanks anyway.

Scott Falkner

Correct answer

Community Expert

You could type "a" and let InDesign smartify the quotes as you type them, then delete the first two charcters. If you are using a Mac you can type Option Shift ].

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Grundoon GroundhogAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you, that works.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Either type it manually (turn off typographic quotation marks in the file‘s preferences), or insert them with the help of the Glyph Panel or change the in preferences > dictionary in the used language.
The shortcut how to insert a specific quotation mark depends on language (each language has different one, or even the same language in different countries based on different ones, the keyboard layout and the OS).

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