Find/replace text with the inches symbol

[DigitalChickster]

Hi all! I have a large set of data that is generated online. What I get is something like this:

30"

I need to replace that html code """ with the inches symbol.

I know how to create the inches symbol in InDesign. But I want to do a find/replace. How would I do this? Currently I have to go through the entire document and type in "control    shift    quote marks" which is very tedious. Any ideas? Thanks! Oh, I'm on a Mac using InDesign 15.0. 

[Barb Binder]

Hi Julie:

Is this what you need? If so:

Find "

Change to ~"

~Barb

[DigitalChickster]

Thanks for the quick response and for taking the time to make the video. That's great. However, when I do what you did... I get quotation marks... not inch marks. What am I doing wrong? 

[DigitalChickster]

OH! I figured it out. I didn't add the tilde before the inch marks... when I did, that made it work. Thank you so much! 

[Jongware]

Just so you know: this does not require GREP. The code for a 'straight double quote', not a typographically correct curly one, in regular Find and Change is '^"' (sans the outer quotes, thus "hat double quote"). It also works for the single quote.

Alternatively, just uncheck "Typographic correct quotes" in the Preferences, run your find&change, and check it again to restore normal behaviour. (There is even a hotkey combo that toggles it, but as I only tend to press it accidentally while hunting for something else, I always have to go to Preferences to restore it.)

[Barb Binder]

Great! We are always happy to help, Julie.

~Barb