PPT: Can't Find/Replace Quotation Marks or Apostrophe

When you attempt to find or replace quotation marks or apostrophes (or words that contain them) in PowerPoint, the search does not find any or all marks, even though they exist.

This problem occurs if the presentation contains curly (or "smart") quotation marks or apostrophes rather than standard (or straight) quotation marks or apostrophes. When you enter a quotation mark or apostrophe in the Find What box in the Find dialog box or the Replace dialog box, a standard quotation mark or apostrophe is entered rather than a curly quotation mark or apostrophe.

Windows

To find smart quotes, you must type the appropriate Windows shortcut keys in the Find What box. To do this, use one of the following shortcut keys in the Find What box: NOTE: The character that appears in the Find What box after you press and release the appropriate key combination may not appear as a smart quote.

Macintosh

To find smart quotes, you must type the appropriate key caps combination in the Find What box. To do this, use one of the following shortcut keys in the Find What box:

The Smart Quotes feature only works with fonts (such as TrueType fonts) that support the ANSI characters 148 and 149.

To enter curly or "smart" quotation marks or apostrophes you must turn on the Smart Quotes feature in PowerPoint. For more information about smart quotation marks, click the Index tab in PowerPoint Help, type the following text: and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Replace straight quotes with smart quotes as I type" topic.