How to Change Straight Inch Marks to Typographer's Quotes in InDesign?

[Serene_observer5E99]

I am working on a book. When I imported the manuscript, all of the quotations were straight inch marks, not typographer's quotes. It is this way throughout the book.

When I tried to do a find/change to correct the issue, I got a message that says it couldn't find any in the document. I am looking directly at the file and there are hundreds of these marks--not a quotation mark in sight. 

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can get the correct typographer's quotes throughout the book?

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[Steve Werner]

Look thru this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-globally-change-straight-double-quotes-to...

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Make sure you've clicked inside the story for it to search properly In fact, you might want to search Document instead of just Story.

If you ARE inside the story, check that they actually used an "inch" mark and not something weirder like two "foot" marks. Maybe copy and paste one from the old copy into the search field, but yes, use the technique that Will describes in the thread Steve points to; it works. In fact, if you turn on Typographical quotes and simply copy and paste some text, it will convert them automatically when you paste. (Of course, this might screw up ones you actually WANT to be inch and foot marks! so watch for those)

The other caveat is that it replaces them to Typographical quotes based on the standard algorithm and it might do the wrong one if the quotation mark is in the wrong place. e.g. you can see what happens if there are errant spaces added in the copy (attached)

Also, the algorithm dpesn'rt properly deal with contractions where the apostrophe is at the beginning, like ’tis and ’80s. It sees those foot marks as an opening single quote (since it's after a space) which for a contraction is typographically incorrect. It should be an apostrophe. Those you have to do manually.