Large quotation marks in Word?

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Published on 2011-06-24T16:41:23Z Indexed on 2012/06/28 9:18 UTC
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Is there a simple way in MS Word to get large quotation marks tightly round a paragraph of text, like you might see in print media to mark a quote?

If you simply increase the font size of the quote character, it moves too far away from the text it's accompanying. Worse, the first and last lines start to detach from the rest of the paragraph. Here's what I mean (this is Calibri I think):

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But this is the desired effect (can't do this in Word, had to chop it about in a paint package):

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