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Diane,

You're confused because of the various different ways that things can be done. I'm not using the find/replace mechanism. I'm taking the string into AppleScript and manipulating it there (because you don't want the noise words actually removed from the text, right, you only want them to be ignored by the search).

So, the noise words version of the smart opening quote needs to be the way that AppleScript will see it.

From my tests, it looks as though it gets just the character, so you can put the single opening smart quote by itself into the list of noise words, thus: "?" and that should work. By the way, if it's possible that you have "?The " and you want the "The" ignored as well, put the "?" at the beginning of the list.

Dave