How quickly toggle smart quotes in Word 2010?

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Published on 2013-07-02T04:10:31Z Indexed on 2013/07/02 5:07 UTC
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I'm working on a long technical document that contains numerous displays of computer code. In running text, I want my quotation marks to be curly, which means that Word's "smart quotes" autoformatting-as-I-type feature is one I want on. But in code displays, curly quotes are incorrect, so in these cases, I want smart-quotes-as-I-type disabled. Is there a fast way to toggle this setting? Or is there a way I can tie it to the paragraph style I'm in? (I use a distinct style for code displays.)

Currently, to toggle the setting, I have to click File>Options>Proofing>AutoCorrect Options...>"Straight quotes" with "smart quotes">OK>OK, which is seven mouse clicks. Toggling it back is another seven mouse clicks. Isn't there a faster way? A keyhboard shortcut to do the toggling or a toolbar button that would toggle it with a single click would be great. Having the setting depend on the paragraph style I was in would be even better.

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