Convert straight quotes to typographic curly quotes, or straighten curly quotes back to plain ones. Optional smart dashes and ellipsis.
Smart quotes (also called curly or typographic quotes) are the proper opening and closing quotation marks and apostrophes used in print, like in this sentence. Straight quotes are the simple vertical marks that keyboards type by default.
Use straight quotes in code, in CSV and JSON data, in URLs, and anywhere a program expects plain ASCII. Curly quotes can break code and data files, so the Straighten button converts them back.
Yes. Apostrophes inside words and at the end of words become the right single quote, and opening quotes are chosen based on whether the quote follows a space or punctuation.