Who knows how many it depends on the story. But who in their right mind was going to do that? There can be 50,000 double and single quotes (since these double as apostrophes) in a manuscript. After studying Word’s How-to guides to fix the problem, I knew less than I did before, and I had already tried what was offered as the solutions.
No surprise they are the same numbers Word was using to change them. If I put in the character set codes of 01, F&R simply couldn’t see a difference. Word would say, essentially: No Changes Found. I tried mass changing through the Find and Replace function. There should have been no straight quotes in it. I was alerted by an author who was proofing his return book from Amazon’s Kindle people that they were having trouble resetting his now typeset manuscript from a layout artist, because there were both smart (curly) and straight quotes in it. It’s already bolloxed up before I put it in Bookman Old Style, or even my other favorite, Palatino Linotype, which uses straight quotes, but of a different style from Word’s choice. No matter which original font the author uses, Word changes the quotes, single and double, to straight quotes, when it goes from the author’s computer to mine. Whenever I receive a manuscript to edit, I automatically change it to a font I find easy on the eyes for the first critique read pre-edit, and looks good for agent submission or self-publishing.
