In the beginning of the LibreOffice 4.x release cycle, straight apostrophes ('') would Auto-Correct to curved apostrophes (‘’) when typed in LibreOffice Writer on Windows 7. For some reason, this feature was not working correctly on Mac OS (10.7), but I did not think that a major issue, when most of my writing was on Windows anyway. However, later in the 4.x release cycle (I first noticed it around 4.2), the apostrophes stopped being Auto-Corrected in my Writer projects. Of course, concerned it might be a settings issue, I ran a clean install of LibreOffice on a clean install of Windows, but the issue persisted. As of the current version of LibreOffice (5.0.4.2), this issue remains persistent. As I tend to make extensive use of ‘single quotes’ in my writing, I would appreciate some sort of solution, even if it's just a temporary script/extension to fix existing documents. Thank you for your consideration. – Ryan
check your "Tools/Autocorrect Options/Localized options" setup and tell if changing the "single quotes" flag solves the issue.
For the life of me, I couldn't find any info on where that option was. Thank you. I now stand corrected.
correct status is WORKSFORME nice to hear that you solved the problem
To fix existing documents, you can try something like this: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2612/how-do-i-convert-straight-quotes-to-typographic-quotes/