Word quotation marks?

Hi, since I upgraded to Lion when I type quotation marks in Word it comes out as « rather than ". Can anyone suggest anything to change it please?

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When you copy someone else's copy of Sgt. Pepper you deprive the distibutor of his profit on the legitimate sale and you deprive Mssrs Mc Cartney and Starr of their rightful royalties, which may be piddling, but every little bit counts.
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Human tend to over-extend the concept of ownership to all sorts of things that cannot legitimately be owned, such as other people. Even nowadays, following the abolition of slavery, many people consider themselves the owners of their spouses, children, employees, pets, etc..
Message was edited by: Jeremy bowmangraphics
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Hi, need a help on this....
I build a whole tree for my keywords and in some of them, I used more them one word in the same keyword, separated by comma.
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So it looks as if it can't be done the way you want it to work.
There is a work around but requires a little more work.
Insert the keywords as you are doing at the present.
Then run a script on the selected documents to sort the keywords removing the quotes.
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#target bridge
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updateKeywords.onSelect = function () {
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var xmp = xmpf.getXMP();
var keys = getArrayItems(XMPConst.NS_DC,'subject').replace(/[";]/g,',');
keys = keys.split(',');
xmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC,'subject');
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function getArrayItems(ns, prop){
var arrItem=[];
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return arrItem.toString();
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Copy and paste the script into ExtendScript Toolkit
This gets installed with Photoshop and can be found:-
PC: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Utilities
MAC: <hard drive>/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities
Start Bridge
PC: Edit - Preferences - Startup Scripts
Mac: Adobe Bridge menu - Preferences - Startup Scripts
At the bottom click the "Reveal Button" this will open the folder where the script should be saved.
Close and restart Bridge.
Accept the new script.
To use:-
Select the documents to update
Tools - "Update Keywords"

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Typographically correct apostrophes and quotation marks? Bug?

I am using the trial of Pages '08 (3.0) on a German Mac OS-X 10.4.10. Typographic quotation marks are switched on.
Apostrophe:
Whenever I type a phrase in English with an apostrophe, for instance the word "Let's" it uses a left single quotation mark (‘) instead of the right single quotation mark.
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Likewise, with typographic quotation marks set in the program settings, Pages uses the German quotation marks (which look like this: „word‟) although the text language is set to English. This behaviour occurs with English and English, GB. In Word this behaviour changes with the text language setting.
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Ian, yes, that would be Smart Quotes in English.
You not being able to get German quotation marks in English would seem to be the same problem. I guess this is a bug then (or a missing feature) as I would expect this to change with each language (e.g. French has guillemots etc.).
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