Using smart punctuation
The Smart Punctuation dialog box searches for keyboard text symbols and replaces them with publishing text symbols. It can also report the number of symbols replaced. If you're using an OpenType font, use the OpenType palette instead of the Smart Punctuation dialog box typeset ligatures and fractions. (See Using the OpenType palette.)
To replace standard keyboard characters with publishing characters: - If you want to replace characters in specific text, rather than all text in the document, select the desired text objects or characters.
- Choose Type > Smart Punctuation.
- Select one or more of the following options:
- ff, fi, ffi Ligatures to change any occurrence of the ff, fi, or ffi letter combinations into ligatures (text symbols that combine two or more letters into a single, special character).
Note: To use ligatures, as well as expert fractions, you must have the appropriate Adobe Expert font installed on your system. - ff, fl, ffl Ligatures to change any occurrence of the ff, fl, or ffl letter combinations into ligatures.
- Smart Quotes (" ") to change straight keyboard quotation marks " " and ' ' into curly quotes " " and ' '.
Note: The Smart Quotes option always replaces straight quotes with curly quotes, regardless of the Double Quotes and Single Quotes settings in the Document Setup dialog box. - Smart Spaces (. ) to change multiple spaces after a period with a single space.
- En, Em Dashes (--) to replace a double keyboard dash -- with an en dash - and to replace a triple keyboard dash --- with an em dash --.
- Ellipses (. . .) to replace three keyboard periods ... with ellipsis points . . .
- Expert Fractions to replace separate characters used to represent fractions with their single-character equivalents.
- Select one of the following options:
- Entire Document to replace text symbols in the entire file.
- Selected Text Only to replace symbols only in selected text.
- Select Report Results to see a list of the number of symbols replaced.
- Click OK to search for and replace selected characters.
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