General ⇒ Converting from Word - curly quote woes

[Klopstick]

I have a book length doc that came to me MS Word form, and it has curly quotes throughout. Naturally, I need to convert all these to something that TexMaker recognizes, because otherwise the PDF comes out with spastic chars instead of quotes and apostrophies.

It looked like a simple find-and-replace should do it, but for some reason, I cannot get TexMaker to properly find the curly quotes, so I can't replace them! Argh! Do I need to find the actual unicode and put that in the fFind box, and if so, HOW? A simple cut&paste of the curly quote from the doc doesn't seem to work (it looks like it gets "converted" to dumb quotes when pasted into the search window), and I have far far too much work in the doc to go back to the original and work on it in Word. (don't even ask, it's been Hell)

So... any tricks to flushing out those funky quotes and apostrophies en masse?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Bruce,

I don't have Windows or Word installed, that's why I cannot reproduce the problem. But I think you could use just any other text editor to search and replace those quotes. You can even use Word to open the tex file (including your changes) as text file, replace the quotes and save it again as text file.

Stefan