Virginia's Kenneth Parent snapped this photo at an Oregon motel this summer. Those apostrophes? You don't need them. (Kenneth Parent) Perspective by John Kelly Punctuation marks don’t come much ...

Use keyboard shortcuts, HTML codes, or the Windows Character Map This article explains how to type and use curly quote marks (also called smart quotes) and apostrophes in all versions of Microsoft ...

The double quote mark comes next, because double quotation marks enclose single quotation marks. Add those up and you get: apostrophe, period, single quotation mark, double quotation mark.

Most professional printed materials use curly quotes (including apostrophes) rather than straight quotes. We can debate whether that's a good idea, but it's the norm for printed text; check out ...

Before we explain the difference between smart quotes and dumb quotes ... for using typographically correct quotation marks, or apostrophes for that matter. Which, if you think about it, is ...

To change Straight Quotes to Smart Quotes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook apps, follow these steps: To learn more about these steps, continue reading. First, launch a Microsoft Office ...