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Straight to curly quotes, step 1: opening quotes

Step 1 of 2. Turns a straight double quote into an opening curly quote when it starts a paragraph or follows a space or an opening bracket. Run step 2 right after it.

Find
BeforeHe said "yes" and left.
(^|[\s(\[])\x{0022}
Change to
AfterHe said “yes" and left.
$1~{
Regular space

Run all of these at once with the free GREP Batch Processor.

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