How to change quotation marks throughout document?

Hello, so all my quotations in my document are like this
“It’s a nasty thing to do”
I want to change them to
'It’s a nasty thing to do'
Is there any easy way of doing this? I tried doing them separately but it always made them both the same direction...if that makes sense? So two 66s or 99s.
Thanks
Dan

Find-and-change should work just fine, but there are a couple of special issues with quote marks.
FIRST: If you put a straight single or double quote in FIND, it will match straight, curly open, and curly closed. (But only for its own 'kind', a single straight quote will never match a double curly one).
SECOND: if you put a straight single or double quote in REPLACE, it will be replaced with a straight, curly open or curly closed according to the active RULES. Rule #1 is, of course, "Use Typographer's Quotes" -- if this is checked, they will be curly, otherwise they will be straight. Rule #2 is only for curlies: if there is a non-word character to the left, the quote will be "Open", otherwise it will be a "Close" one. Rule #3 is: the style of these quotes will be taken from the language of the text that it's applied to.
THIRD: to override any of the above, use the Meta-characters for the various quotes. You can use them both in Find and in Change, and you can find the meta-characters in the Online help for your version of InDesign, and in the pop-down menus next to the Find and Change fields. Some that I regularly use:
^' in FIND will only match straight quotes, no curlies. Same for ^"
^[ will FIND only curly single opens, and in REPLACE will only insert curly single opens
^] same for curly single closes.
In your example, you seem to change double quotes to single ones (why not simply say so? ), but you say they change to two 66s or 99s. Perhaps that's a language thing? In Finnish, for example, both open and close are 99s.

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Hi Peter,
your solution is pretty good while the pairs of quotes are complete and you only use one sort of typographer quotes.
But what if once the final quote is missing?
Or if you want to use different language sensitive quotes for a document with multilingual text?
Another approach is to take use of the execution of typographer quotes of InDesign itself.
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But it's language sensitive! ;-)
After all, apostrophes () will disturb the changing also in this approach, because they are not recognized as apostrophes but as single typographical quotes.
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