Reply To: GREP to find numbers with curly quotation marks

(Having a slight deja-vu — GREP with hyphens with various numbers? But let me repeat it here, in case someone else has the exact same question.)

Search for

(?<=d)”

Replace with

~”

The search works because it looks for “a digit on the left”, followed by any sort of double quote — typing ” in a Search expression will have InDesign automatically look for both straight and curly, both open and closed, double quotes.

The replace works because usually InDesign automatically translates a single ” into the required open or closed double curly quote, but the notation ~” means it should not do that and insert a literal double “.