smart quotes messed up from ipad

i do understand how to set the preference on the laptop, but that doesn't change the straight quotes that already were entered back to curly, unless i go and delete each mark and reenter it.

i don't see any preference pane for the ipad version of pages to control smart quotes; the global preference for 'auto correction' might control smart quotes on the ipad, but that would be unworkable, since i routinely use words it doesn't recognize (languages not english, and just unusual english words). hopefully there is another way, or will be soon...

there are no system preference panes on the ipad governing smart quotes i can find. i tried turning on auto-correction, which doesn't work either.

so it sounds like you are saying there is no way to go in and change all quote marks in a document to straight or curly after they have been entered? if this is the case it will seriously limit the usefulness of my ipad as a lightweight solution for revising text on the go.

hmm, i thought i had tried this and it didn't work, but i just tried it again to be sure and this time it seems to have worked fine. not sure what changed in between.

so i guess if i can remember to do that for all quotes and apostrophes as a last step, editing on the ipad isn't completely impossible.