When you think of double quotation marks, you probably remember your English lessons in school. However, in Microsoft Excel, ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. I can think of a few things off the top of my head that I hope never to use: math, a fire extinguisher, Pepto Bismol and ...

Q. I sometimes need to type foot and inch marks in my documents, but Microsoft Word converts them to curly quote marks. Is there a way to bypass this behavior? A. For occasional straight quote marks, ...

The punctuation mark that annoys people the most is, without a doubt, the apostrophe. Whole books have been written lamenting atrocities like “five carrot’s and three kiwi’s” (for the record, that ...