RE: Xy to Word

["Nancy Friedman" nancyf@xxxxxxxx]

> Norman Bauman wrote:
>
> > Question: How do I convert the quotation marks (") into open and closed
> > quotes?
> >

and Leslie Bialler replied:
>
> Don't. Word will take care of this when the Word version of the file is
> opened.

To which I say:

Oh, really? I deal with this problem all the time, and Word has never worked
this particular magic for me. I recently produced a 40,000-word ms. in XyDOS
4.017, opened it in Word, and had to manually replace every (")--which Word
recognizes as an inch mark--and change every (--) to an em dash. If there's
an easier method, I'd love to hear about it.

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Nancy Friedman
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