Agoldenquill wrote:
> Does anyone know of a macro-type method or any other method to
>  automatically convert straight quotes to smart/curly quotes?
> 
> FYI, I've already tried search-and-replace, but this too is a
>  time-consuming task, having to go through and search each left straight
>  quote and replace it with a left smart quote, then do the same for the
>  right. Twice through 400+ pages...not fun.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

Assuming you mean the character " by "straight quote" and assuming you want 
American quote style, the following preamble code is supposed to produce what 
you want in the output (while the straight quotes are kept inside LyX):

\usepackage[english]{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}

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