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Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

Definitive answers from Designer Desktop experts.
Recently a client reached out to us, saying that "all of a sudden" curly quotes were coming out of his keyboard, and Alteryx was rejecting them as unrecognizable. These are called SmartQuotes, and they are purely aesthetic. This can also happen when cutting/ pasting from other programs. Either way, Alteryx doesn't like them.   To change them back to the standard, useful straight quotes we all know and rely on, the first thing to try is CTRL SHIFT '   This will toggle between quote types.   An extra precaution is to make sure that your 'Regional Language' setting is English (United States); this is different than US English International. To check, in your control panel, go to Region and Language, Keyboards and Languages tab, and click on Change keyboards:   Make sure that your installed services is English (United States). If you do happen to require another input language, under the Advanced Key Settings, it will show you the key sequence to toggle between those keyboards.   This last step is likely unnecessary, but it's a good option to have in case CTRL SHIFT ' doesn't work (and I haven't yet seen it not work).   Now, back to writing formulas and queries with ease!    
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A guide to RgEx syntax in Alteryx!
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