Smart Quotes and Other Characters

The Edit menu has a new submenu called Substitutions, with two options. Both of these let you to turn on/off options at the project level that are available under Scrivener>Preferences>Corrections (which applies globally to all projects on that computer).

  • Smart Quotes: When on (checkmark next to it), Scrivener ensures all quotes you type are smart or “curly” quotes.
  • Smart Dashes and Ellipses: When on, Scrivener converts dashes and ellipses from plain text to smart text as you write.