How to globally change straight double quotes to curly open and close?

I am editing with InDesign (5.5) some documents created by others. I suddenly noticed that the double quote marks were straight, not curly, in one document and Find/Change does not seem to offer and option to distiguish the open (left) double quote mark from the right (close) when starting with double straight quotes. Any suggestions?
And--unrelated--why is so hard to get to a page where you can actually post a question?
Thanks!
Jill

Since the position of a double quotation mark determines its shape, it is easiest to use GREP with Find/Change. You can (1) find a straight quotation mark at the beginning of a word/phrase and change it to left quotation marks, and then (2) find a straight quotation mark at the end of a word/phrase and change it to right quotation marks.
(1)
Find what:
~"([\l\u\)[:punct:]])
This finds a straight quotation mark in front of any character or punctuation.
Change to:
\x{201C}$1
This puts a left quotation marks in front of what was behind the straight quotation mark.
(2)
Find what:
([\l\u\)[:punct:]])~"
This finds a straight quotation mark behind any character or punctuation.
Change to:
$1\x{201D}
This puts a left quotation mark behind what was behind the straight quotation mark.
I would find/change the first hits one at a time, and when you are confident that it works for your documents, go ahead and Change All.

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