[bksvol-discuss] Re: Replacing the stupid ellipses character with three periods.

  • From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:12:27 -0500


Yes, that is a good test, Christina.  Thank you.

Sue S.


-----Original Message----- From: Christina
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 6:01 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Replacing the stupid ellipses character with three periods.

Happy to help.
Christina

----- Original Message ----- From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Replacing the stupid ellipses character with three periods.


Hi Christine!

I just tried the advice you gave.

I must have gotten rid of the elipsis symbol way back when, because, in
Word 2003, if I use the control alt period keystroke, I hear my keyboard
voice say quietly, since I like my keyboard to speak quietly, "elipsis" and
Word gives me the elipsis symbol, and I hear the screen voice say "elipsis"
when I either left- or right-arrow over the character.  However, if I
manually type the period three times in succession, I get ..., and, when
either left- or right-arrowing over these group of three periods, I hear
"period, period, period", so I know it is three separate periods, not the
single symbol for an elipsis.

Debby

At 01:05 PM 4/8/2011, Christina wrote
Hi.
I haven't really been following this thread so what I'm about to say may
be completely counterproductive but...

The word key command for an ellipsus is control alt period.
When you type that in, an ellipsus will appear where your cursor is.  This
might help with replacing them with what you want.
Christina

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Lumpkin" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Replacing the stupid ellipses character with
three periods.


Wow, I went into autoformat as you suggested and unfortunately, I can not
find what you were talking about anywhere. Has anyone else done this
replacement Mayrie is talking about? Thanks in advance.

Susan


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:46 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Replacing the stupid ellipses character with three
periods.

Hi Lori and everyone,

Okay, I'm going to give admittedly terrible instructions here.  Because I
have such a crummy memory that I can't remember what I just did!

I went into the AutoFormat tab, and somewhere in a list found where Word
says "dot dot dot".  It's showing three periods and automatically replacing
them with that evil ellipses character. But right next to that character is an edit box where you can replace with something. If you type three periods
in there, essentially telling Word to replace three periods with three
periods, you won't ever have to fix that evil character unless it appears in your document before you ever type in the document. But anyway, if you type
three periods they'll stay there.

I'm really, really sorry.  These are probably the worst instructions I've
ever given in my life.  I hope someone else can give better instructions
than this.

And if the ellipses character appears as a part of an rtf document which
came to you uncorrected, I guess you'll still have to use find and replace
to fix them.

How did I get myself in this mess?

Mayrie


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