Data migration from WORD to ORACLE

I have a long file in WORD as I try to load it in ORACLE quotes become periods, ex:
insert into mytab values ('myname, 26);
when i copy this and paste it in oRACLE (UNIX environment), it translates as
insert into mytab values (.myname.,26)..does not recognize the quotes

I tried copying from word to notepad to ORACLE same problem..
need help!!!!

I'm going to guess that the quotation marks in your word file are not actually quotation marks, but special directional quotation marks.

Do a find+replace on the character and replace it with a standard quotation mark. Since there are two different directional quotation marks (one for each side of a quote) you'll need to do this for both characters.

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Thanks, however

these are standard quotation marks from the keyboard. Also sorry foy my ignorance what is find+

Thanks, however

these are standard quotation marks from the keyboard. Also sorry foy my ignorance what is find+? How do you do find+?

find+replace, "find and replace".

I'm really not sure then. I don't really do anything with Oracle. Perhaps you could save your word document as a text file instead and use a batch tool to load the whole file into the database? I know this is possible with most other databases.

Find and replace ..ok not sure what I was thinking..
Anyway i figured it out the long way, in notepad type a ' then copy and paste it in word file --copy it

in word data file find (original ' )and replace it with just copied ' in replace use paste from clipboard option. Make sure clipboard has nothing else besides the '
otherwise it would paste all the junk that you may have in the clipboard..