To manually insert smart quotes, the keyboard must have a numeric keypad, and you must activate the Num Lock key. To use the numeric codes, press and hold the Alt key, then type the four-digit ...

If you’re reading this, you probably know a thing or two about punctuation. But nobody — including punctuation book authors (ahem) — knows it all. So here are some advanced punctuation tips for good ...

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

I need to get something off my chest. The misuse of sky commas drives me batty. Sky commas, you ask? I’m talking about apostrophes and quotation marks. I acknowledge that I qualify as a grammar nerd.

Use keyboard shortcuts, HTML codes, or the Windows Character Map This article explains how to type and use curly quote marks (also called smart quotes) and apostrophes in all versions of Microsoft ...