SQL Developer Problems with Microsoft Word Apostrophes

Hi,
I'm trying to copy and paste a list like the following from Microsoft Word to SQL Developer -
'123','456','789'
Shouldnt be a problem.
But when ever I paste it into an sql file in Developer it comes out with different styled apostrophes which SQL Developer does not seem to like -
‘123’,’123’,’123’
Obviously I can just do a find and replace and change all of the problem apostrophes but is there a way to stop the problem occuring?
It doesnt matter what font I am using in Word, I always get the slanted style apostrophes. But in Developer, if I just normally type an apostrophe, I get the acceptable version - '

I hate copying and pasting to/from word it does far to many things I don't want it to do.
A trick that sometimes works for me is to copy in word, paste in notepad, then copy in notepad and paste into SQL developer.
I have replicated your issue but I have found that even this dosn't work.
You could write a VBA macro in word linked to the ctrl + c short cut that does a text copy and a find and replace on the special chars turning them into normal ones but I think this might be overkill.

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