[bksvol-discuss] Re: Reall instructions for fixing ellipses that work!
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:52:33 -0500
Don't feel bad, Lori; I think I try very, hard, too, and I never knew there was
an automatic substitution and now need to rework my autocorrect. I know I have
several hundred books with bad ellipses for Braille. Boo for me. [sigh]
Valerie
On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Lori Castner wrote:
> Thanks, everyone, for your help.
> It took a lot of tries, but I got it to work.
> I may have submitted books with incorrect ellipses, and I feel very sorry
> about that. I have made an effort in all books to put spaces around the
> three periods when necessary and to know they still may be wrong in past
> books really angers me.
>
> I am a very conscientious proofreader, but sometimes feel I can't keep up
> with everything.
> Lori C.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:11 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Reall instructions for fixing ellipses that work!
>
>
>> Hi Everyone!
>>
>> I love Jon! He wrote instructions because I couldn't remember them!
>>
>> Here they are!
>>
>> It's sort of different from Judy's instructions, but there is always more
>> than one way to achieve something in Windows!
>>
>> I'm so sorry I didn't have these instructions earlier!
>>
>> Please speak up if you find they need tweeking for clarity!
>>
>> Shutting up now. See below.
>>
>> Mayrie
>>
>> stopping Wird from automatically inserting the elipsis character when you
>> type ...
>>
>> 1. When in Microsoft Wird with a document open, press alt plus T for the
>> tools menu, followed by the letter a.
>>
>> 2. If you hear something about U.S. English and then "replace, edit combo"
>> you are in the right place.
>> If you don't hear this tab around in this dialog box until you come to this
>> control.
>>
>> 3. Downarrow here, this is actually the list of characters which Word
>> changes into other characters.
>>
>> 4. Find the string of three periods which represents the elipsis.
>>
>> 5. Tab here and notice that the single character for elipsis is in this edit
>> field. Backspace it out and put in the string of three periods that you want
>> Word to use instead.
>>
>> 6.Tab over to the OK button and press enter to make your changes permanent
>> for all future documents.
>>
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