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- In this movie, I'll show you how to use

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the smart punctuation command,

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which essentially fixes broken text

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inside of Illustrator.

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And to get a sense for
what I'm talking about,

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I'll go ahead and scroll down a few lines

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on this first page.

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Notice if I zoom in here

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that we've got a couple of problems.

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First of all, we have straight quotes,

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which is a real drag because there's

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a ton of quotes inside this document.

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Then notice this fi right there

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in the word finished.

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Do you see how it appears

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as two independent characters

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whereas what we're supposed to see

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is the lowercase f curl over and form

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the dot on the letter i?

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That's what's known as a ligature.

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Now what's amazing is that smart quotes

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are already turned on
inside this document.

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That function resides in a
strange place in Illustrator.

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What you want to do is go
up to the control panel

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and click on the Document Setup button,

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and then inside the
Document Setup dialogue box,

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you click on the word Type.

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Then you're going to see this

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Use Typographer's Quotes
check box turned on.

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You also have the option
of specifying the language

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that you're using, and that's
because there's all kinds

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of quote conventions out there.

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And then you can also specify what your

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double quotes, as well as
what your single quotes,

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look like.

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And so if you wanted
straight quotes to indicate,

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for example, inches, then you would turn

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this check box right here off.

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However, I want to leave it on,

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so I'll just go ahead and
click on the Cancel button.

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Notice what that means.

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If I go ahead and select the Type tool,

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which I can get by pressing the T key,

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and I select this quote character

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and then I just re-enter it by pressing

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Shift quote, then I'm going
to get curly quotes instead,

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which is great, but what do I do

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about my existing problems?

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Well I'll just go ahead
and press the Escape key

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in order to exit the text entry mode,

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and then I'll click off the text

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to de-select it.

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Here's what you do.

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You go up to the Type menu

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and choose this sanity saving command

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right here, Smart Punctuation,

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which will go ahead and replace,

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notice your ff, fi, and ffi ligatures,

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as well as the fl variations.

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We can also replace smart quotes

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as well as En and Em Dashes.

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We'll see what that
means in just a moment.

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Now currently, I don't
have anything selected,

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so I want to switch Replace
In to Entire Document,

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and I also want to report the results.

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I want you to see what happens

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with the fi right there
in the word finished.

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As soon as I click OK,

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a moment later I'll see this result

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telling me that six
ligatures were changed,

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including this guy right there.

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So notice that the f and i

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are now fused into a single character.

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I've also changed 103 quotes.

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So you can see I've got curly quotes

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all over the place now.

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I replaced one dash, dot, or fraction.

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So my guess is it's a dash,

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and to see if Illustrator
gave me the right kind

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of dash, I'm going to go ahead

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and click OK.

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Then I'll go up to the Edit menu

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and choose Find and Replace,

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which allows you to locate characters

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inside of your document.

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And the character I want to find

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is an en dash, which is a dash

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that's as wide as a standard
lowercase character,

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such as the letter n.

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But I don't know how to enter that,

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so what I'm going to do is click this

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down pointing arrow head

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right next to the Find option

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and I'll choose En Dash.

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That goes ahead and creates

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this little code right there,

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caret equals, at which point I'll click

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the Find button in order
to locate that en dash.

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That's not what I want.

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I want an em dash at that location,

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which is a wider dash,

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a dash that's as wide as the letter m,

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and so I'm going to
click the down pointing

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arrow head after the Replace With option.

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I'll choose Em Dash right there,

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no Em Space, but Em Dash.

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Then you want to go ahead and click

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the Replace button, and you'll see

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that character gets replaced like so,

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after which point I'll
go ahead and click Done

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to dismiss the dialogue box.

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And that, friends, is how you replace

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broken type by going to the Type menu

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and choosing Smart Punctuation

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here inside Illustrator.