Punctuation problem! Straight vs curved quotation marks

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My problem is with double quotation marks - when I’m quoting someone within my thesis, “for example like this” the quotation marks appeared curved, but when Endnote cites something, like an essay title, in the bibliography, or after the quote the quotation marks are straight. “like this”  My PhD supervisor has a real bugbear about this is there a way that I can make them match? Preferably by making the straight Endnote ones curved…  

I’m using Endnote X4, and MS Word 2010 (on a PC). 

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Thanks Leanne, I tried that (in fact before I posted, and it’s a bit different to Word 2007) but it doesn’t make any difference.  I think because the straight quotes in the bibliography are protected somehow.  Really frustrating!   Not sure if it’s a MS Word problem or an endnote one.  Have to find a way around it before I send my next draft to my supervisor.

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Thanks again Leanne, will give that a try.  Yes, I’m really not a fan of Word 2010, two years later I’m still trying to find my way around it!  :confounded:

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A bit more complicated but a more “global” fix: Create a slightly modified output style in which you change the straight " " to open and closing curly quotation marks “ ”  using Alt+0147 and Alt+0148

Cheers

John

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Thanks for that John, sorted it out in no time! 

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I just wanted to say thank you very much Leanne for the technical way to fix this quotation mark issue.  It has been driving me insane trying to figure out why the same MS Office 2007 discs installed on different computers treated the quotation marks differently.  I just hope that it sticks on all the computer profiles on this computer, but if not, I will now know how to fix the staright quote marks to the curly ones.  After all, that is one of the reasons that I use the Georgia font and not the calibri or arial.  Curly is good, straight is…not so good.