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Pretty simple: I need a way to convert special characters like curly quotes, ellipses, etc to their "plain text" version, i.e. … to ..., “ to ".
This is on OS X, meaning I can't use a macro in Microsoft Word to do this as I have on a PC.
This is for a plain-text email, not HTML, which is why I need them in this format.
1+1 for phasing the answer like you are an animated paperclip. – stib – 2010-05-08T12:54:42.290
□ Don't Show me this tip again – ghoppe – 2010-05-11T13:11:08.983
Looks good, but for some reason I get "No Services Apply" from the Services menu in Microsoft Word – None – 2010-05-19T20:27:16.000
Stupid MS Word isn't a Cocoa application but you can still code support for Services into Carbon applications. I hear Entourage supports services but Word does not. Sorry. I advise not using Word. :) You mentioned this was for a plain-text email why not just apply the service there? – ghoppe – 2010-05-19T21:53:51.510
Or could you use a "Get Selected Content from Word Documents" action instead, as @Doug Harris has done with his shell script? – ghoppe – 2010-05-19T21:57:04.233
Unfortunately I work at a publishing company and everything is done in Word.
Doug's solution does work well but I just added a comment explaining the issue I'm still having. However your and Doug's suggestions have already helped a lot! – None – 2010-05-20T15:49:58.467