Tip #5: The Trouble with Curly Quotes
UPDATE: Thanks to Layal Hneiny for the screenshots and instructions for Word (Office on the Web)! Have you ever run into the "unsupported characters" error message in Ovid MEDLINE? In more complex searches, it can be especially frustrating to pinpoint the exact character that isn't supported. This is a simple search example to highlight one common situation that will trigger this error message: Curly or Smart Quotes. At first glance, both of these phrases appear to be the same: “drug addiction”.ti,ab. OR "Substance Use Disorder".ti,ab. But upon closer inspection you can see that the quotation marks are slightly different: The drug phrase has curly or smart quotes around it and the substance phrase has straight quotes . Ovid MEDLINE does not support the use of curly or smart quotes. This is a simplified version of a search that hit my inbox last week. I was working with a faculty member in a shared Google doc. She had downloaded the ...