Yo, pretty ladies around the world

[venta]

Morning, LJ. I've got stuck in that loop where I have buckets of posts I've been intending to make, and thus can't post about anything because I need to sort the backlog out first.

Accordingly, I'm declaring Amnesty On Everything, because I'd like to ask a question :)

I have a lot of Word documents, where I have pasted in text written in a text editor and then edited it in Word. The net effect is that I end up with a mixed bag of "straight" ASCII quote marks and apostrophes, and fancy Unicode left- or right-handed quote marks and apostrophes.

What is the best way of sorting this out?

I expect to continue writing ASCII text documents in my favourite text editor and pasting them into Word, so anything that prevents this situation from arising would also be useful.

Comments

Got a weird thing to show ya so tell all the boys and girls

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I'm just here for the kudos...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Then kudos you shall have :-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

... though if you Google for the lyrics, the top result is Google's own lyric engine thingy, which reports it as beginning "Your pretty ladies...". I'm pretty sure that can't be right :)

[shermarama]

Putting in a cameo appearance? :D

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I see what you did there, and I approve!