Replace Smart Straight Quotes

Need to clean up curly quotes or convert straight quotes into fancy typography? The Replace Smart Straight Quotes Tool lets you toggle between both styles instantly. It’s perfect for fixing pasted content, prepping text for HTML, or cleaning up messy formatting without hunting down every quote by hand.

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How to Use:

  1. Paste or type your text into the Input Text box.
  2. (Optional) Use Choose File to import a supported text-based file like .txt, .md, .html, etc.
  3. In the Options box:
    • Select Convert straight to smart to turn straight quotes (like " and ') into curly “smart” quotes.
    • Or choose Convert smart to straight to simplify curly quotes into plain ASCII characters.
  4. The converted result appears instantly in the Formatted Output box.
  5. Click Copy Output to copy the result, or Export to File to download it.
  6. Click Clear All to reset everything and start fresh.

What Replace Smart Straight Quotes Tool can do:

This tool swaps between curly and straight quotes with a live preview so you can see the changes as you go. It covers both double and single quotes, handling common formatting for dialogue, quotes, and apostrophes. Whether you’re simplifying text for code or formatting it for publishing, this tool helps clean it up quickly. It’s all client-side, fast, and requires no reload.

Example:

Input:

“Smart quotes” and ‘apostrophes’

Convert to straight:

"Smart quotes" and 'apostrophes'

Input:

"This is a test" and 'another one'

Convert to smart:

“This is a test” and ‘another one’

Common Use Cases:

Writers, developers, and editors often need to convert curly quotes to straight quotes for compatibility or fix pasted text that’s full of smart quotes. This tool handles both directions easily, whether you’re prepping for markdown, cleaning up code, or reformatting for print. Just toggle the mode and you’re set.

Useful Tools & Suggestions:

If you’re cleaning up inconsistent punctuation, Remove Quotes from Words helps strip unwanted quote marks directly from each word. And for a broader cleanup, Remove Unwanted Characters lets you target a wide range of symbols that might be cluttering your text perfect for prepping content before formatting or analysis.

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