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Rudy B
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  		   Posted 10/26/2009 12:12 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi, with using Finale, I wish that it would use the Smart Quotation Marks like Microsoft Word uses. I prefer the look of them so I manually change them in every song I typeset. It gets to be alot of work when I'm typesetting a 520 song songbook, but because it looks nicer I do it anyway. Is there any way that this could be added to Finale?

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Wiggy
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  		   Posted 10/28/2009 6:21 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
On a Mac, you can access smart quote marks by <alt> [ and <alt><shift [ for double quotes. Use ] for single quotes.
I presume there's an equivalent keyboard press in Windows.

You can of course copy and paste text from the Edit Lyrics window into a text editor, do a global replace to Smart Quotes, then copy and paste the text back into the Edit Lyrics box.

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  		   Posted 11/10/2009 7:31 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
If you use Windows, get the free program AllChars for Windows at sourceforge.net/projects/allchars
This will let you insert smart quotes easily. CTRL,',' gives you ” and CTRL,`,` gives you “


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