How to stop Office 2010 changing " and ' to smart quotes

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Published on Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT Indexed on 2011/11/11 18:17 UTC
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I have recently upgraded to Office 2010 at work and there are a few things that are a real problem for me. As a T-SQL developer and SQL Server DBA I copy and paste code to and from various applications and if Word gets involved it can has disastrous consequences. There is an option that appears to be defaulted to "on" that changes a straight quote to what Word describes as a smart quote - see the image below. Note - the single quote suffers from the same effect. Now, getting to the point that...(read more)

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