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On 12/13/2012 12:38 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:15 13/12/2012 -0800, Karen DInse wrote:
Using Calc, a spreadsheet created in Excel 2003 is opened. A column within the spreadsheet is formatted as Number, General. The user is trying to enter number of inches (27.5' S/W Pin) using the apostrophe to indicate inches. They are using Times New Roman as the font. The apostrophe is showing as a curly apostrophe, but the user wants it to be straight. (27.5' S/W Pin) (unfortunately these both show as straight apostrophes here).

I tried changing the font, but that didn't work. I've tried changing the column to text, but that didn't work either. Is there a way to change curly apostrophes to straight ones?

Yes.  There are two alternatives:

o Calc sees the "correction" from a straight quote to a typographer's one as a separate action from typing the quote itself. So if, immediately after typing the quote, you go to Edit | Undo (or Ctrl+Z), you can undo the correction and keep the straight quote you typed.

o If you wish to disable this automatic correction (for all documents and all types of document), remove the tick at Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Localized Options | Replace.

Incidentally, one tick mark is feet; two is inches.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker



Very interesting, and useful. I wonder if you know that WordPerfect is smart enough to do this automatically?
Too bad LO is not that smart.

--doug

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