Disabling Smart Quotes

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Disabling Smart Quotes

Maybe it is only happening to me, but I have to keep disabling smart quotes in System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Text at least as frequently as my Macbook downloads updates. I don't have to do this for most other settings I can think of like the natural scroll direction (that I absolutely despise) or sound level or whatever. Anyone else? Aren't there people out there who can't use smart quotes such as coders, etc.? Does everyone just paste as plain text or have destination apps that convert back to straight quotes?

The same thing happens with Microsoft Office updates, too.

Posted on Jul 1, 2022 8:25 AM

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ku4hx

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Jul 2, 2022 6:55 AM in response to fredhag

We've got five Macs, (all running Monterey 12.4) that get used regularly in one role or another. On all five, we have nothing like you describe.

We have two versions of Office: 2016 and 2019 and no problems there either.

This sounds like a system wide fault; have you considered reinstallation of your OS? Done from the recovery panel (Command + R at startup) replaces only the OS without any affect on data, settings, or apps. Of course if the problem happens to be a setting inadvertently reset or forgotten, that setting would not be altered.

Takes about 40 minutes cold start to login screen.

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fredhag Author

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Jul 2, 2022 8:11 AM in response to ku4hx

Thanks, this is interesting. I never thought about it, but this suggests there may be something my school is doing. Two of my three Macs are owned and managed by my school, and my personal one is old enough that it doesn't get many updates, and I don't recall problems with it. Either way, I can't reinstall the OS on my work computers and should just ask them since this doesn't sound like a widespread issue. Thanks.

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