How do I force straight quotation marks to turn to smart quotes?

[maingor-gXQynN]

Our ID prefs are set to use smart quotes but there are times when we get text documents that refuse to toe the line. We fix that by doing Find/Change and forcing all straight quotes to change to smart quotes. Is there a way to tell InDesign to change all those by itself whenever any straight quotes is placed on a page? Note that we are mostly editors who have to do layout by ourselves. We also have guys who only do layout but they don't really understand InDesign, so we want to make things a lot easier for them. We are all using InDesign CS5.

Thank you.

[FivePicaPica]

Is "Use Typographer's Quotes" checked?

I'd also pick up a copy of  the InDesign Visual Quickstart Guide by Sandee Cohen. It's about $25.00, but worth every penny to have on hand.

[maingor-gXQynN]

Yes, it's checked in all our machines (all iMacs, btw). Any other solution? Any suggestion about how to make a shortcut so that when I press just one key combination, all the straight (stupid) quotes would become smart quotes?

I did read Sandy's Quick Start Guide when we were still using ID2. I also bought the book by David Blattner and Steve Werner for ID3. But I stopped using ID regularly after a career change. Now I'm again helping the guys I left earlier.

[Jongware]

Find: ^"

Change to: "

(For single quotes it's the same.) (Well, almost.)

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(Note.) Adobe calls them "Typographers' Quotes", not "smart" quotes, because once they are in your document in either 'opening' or 'closing' form, they won't smartly change to the "correct" form when editing text.

[maingor-gXQynN]

Thank you Jongware and 5picapica.

[sherris97957332]

This is awesome. Have it saved as a setting now on my "Find and Replace".

[rob day]

Yes, it's checked in all our machines (all iMacs, btw). Any other solution?

Like most of InDesign's preferences the use Typographer's Quotes preference can be an Application preference (check it with all documents closed), or a document preference. You can have it checked for any new documents, but an individual document could be saved with it unchecked.

You can use scripting to turn it on or off, so it would be possible to have a startup script force it on anytime a document is opened.

[default3hg6lz11f9na]

This sounds like an ideal solution to the problem. How could I go about setting up a start up script to ensure Typographer's quotes is turned on? or is there any exsisting scripts out there that can do this? 

[CFDA]

Hello FivePicaPica, 

I have aslightly different "InDesign/Preferences/Type" window, but even with the "Use Typographer's Quotes" checked I still get straight quotes. 

Anywhere else I should look

All my best and thank you for your help

[jane-e]

Just because it hasn't been mentioned yet, new text should be placed, not copied and pasted. When you place text and show import options, then “Use Typographer’s Quotes” is turned on by default. Confirm that it is on for you.

And for trivia (for those who care) if you want typographer's quotes in these forums, here are the shortcuts:

“  Option + [

”  Option + Shift + [

‘  Option + ]

’  Option + Shift + ]

~ Jane

[fredl65064644]

Apparently Adobe hasn't figured out how to apply typographer's quotes if the text is used as a section marker--then only straight quotes appear. Meaning instead of a section marker you need to use a text variable for a running head.
Any thoughts to the contrary?