You never know the frustration of getting this unrecognizable character sign if youre not playing with words.

This happens if the other platform doesnt support the character encoding.

And also how to change the quotation marks in Word that youve already written.

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Curly Quotes Vs. Straight Quotes: When to Use?

Having said that, two types of quotation marks/speech marks are available for you.

And from the heading of this passage, you could guess what those are.

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One of those is referred to as curly () quotation the often used one.

And the latter is a straight inverted () comma the earlier version of the smart quotation.

Generally, theres no grammatical restriction for using any of these inverted quotations.

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Trouble begins when you change the reading platform rather than MS Word.

Hence, the black block of unidentifiable character.

And you’re able to resolve that issue by attending to a few changes to your Word client.

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Check out the following passage to figure out how to do that.

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But before commencing that point, you gotta discover with which quotation mark youre getting the block .

What you might do is, bang out the quotation mark on your Word document along with some sentences.

Save the file in Docx format and open that file with Google Docs.

Notice any irritating changes?

Yes, you’re gonna wanna change that exact quotation mark style from your Word document.

Read along to find out.

Its the standard procedure to follow if you want to modify your writing style in advance.

But, what happens to the article that you wrote earlier applying this modification?

Check out the next section to clear that up.

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Theres a straightforward way to flip the quotation marks of your current writings.

I suppose you got all the information that you were seeking from this article.

But, would you like to know about keyboard shortcuts for quotation mark symbols?

Have a look at the following segment.

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Especially if you dont want to move the fingers from the keyboard.

In this section, Ill add some shortcut keys for producing quotation marks in Microsoft Word.

Bookmark this page if you tend to forget the basic shortcuts like me!

Have further queries regarding this matter?

Jump to the subsequent section.

Ive arranged that segment with relevant questions along with the appropriate responses.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why are my quotation marks backward on Word?

Most probably, youve enabled the left-to-right text on Microsoft word.

Also, after installing particular softwares, viewing some texts can be inverted.

How do you flip the quotes on a keyboard?

Press and Alt on your keypad > bang out 34 consecutively.

Youll be able to flip the quotes.

How do you change curly quotes to straight quotes in word?

My team will be happy to assist you.