Does Replace Smart Quotes upload my file or text to Tool-You servers?

No. Replace Smart Quotes runs in this browser tab. Files stay on the device. Limit note: Non-empty text.

Should I use Normalize Dashes instead of Replace Smart Quotes?

Use Replace Smart Quotes when you need Straighten curly quotes. Use Normalize Dashes when you need Convert en/em dashes to hyphen. They share a category (Text) but not the same job.

Replace Smart Quotes

Straighten curly quotes.

Maps curly single/double quotes to ASCII. Unlike Normalize Dashes this targets quotes. Empty fails.

What Replace Smart Quotes does

Maps curly single/double quotes to ASCII. Unlike Normalize Dashes this targets quotes. Empty fails.

Practical limit for Replace Smart Quotes: Non-empty text. That is why output can differ from heavy desktop Text software. Read the tool-specific note again: Maps curly single/double quotes to ASCII. Unlike Normalize Dashes this targets quotes. Empty fails.

How to use Replace Smart Quotes

Keep this tab on Replace Smart Quotes (/text/replace-smart-quotes). Pasting into the wrong Text tool (for example Normalize Dashes) changes the job.
Paste or type the input Replace Smart Quotes expects. Path hint: text · replace smart quotes. Straighten curly quotes.
Apply the Replace Smart Quotes action only. Find and Replace is a different transform (Replace literal text.). Maps curly single/double quotes to ASCII. Unlike Normalize Dashes this targets quotes. Empty fails.
Copy the output of Replace Smart Quotes if you need it elsewhere. Size/complexity still follows: Non-empty text.
If the text job is actually Convert en/em dashes to hyphen., leave Replace Smart Quotes and open Normalize Dashes.

When not to use Replace Smart Quotes

Skip Replace Smart Quotes when a neighbor tool matches better — start with Normalize Dashes or Find and Replace — or when the description already warns the job will fail. In the tool’s own words: Maps curly single/double quotes to ASCII. Unlike Normalize Dashes this targets quotes. Empty fails.

Questions about Replace Smart Quotes

What does Replace Smart Quotes do that other Text pages on this site do not?: Maps curly single/double quotes to ASCII. Unlike Normalize Dashes this targets quotes. Empty fails. Short version: Straighten curly quotes.
Does Replace Smart Quotes upload my file or text to Tool-You servers?: No. Replace Smart Quotes runs in this browser tab. Files stay on the device. Limit note: Non-empty text.
Should I use Normalize Dashes instead of Replace Smart Quotes?: Use Replace Smart Quotes when you need Straighten curly quotes. Use Normalize Dashes when you need Convert en/em dashes to hyphen. They share a category (Text) but not the same job.
What are the limits of Replace Smart Quotes?: Non-empty text. Also: Maps curly single/double quotes to ASCII. Unlike Normalize Dashes this targets quotes. Empty fails.