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

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 17:40:42 -0700

Hi Sue,

On my braille display, the ellipses character and the three periods show up
looking like the same thing.  It's only when the rtf files go through
Bookshare's tools that makes a problem with the ellipses character.  The
creation of the single-character ellipses is automatically on, so you
probably need to change it.

I would assume that turning off AutoFormatting altogether would fix the
problem.  Though I don't know if other things would become problems. I don't
even know if one can turn off all of that stuff.  Novel idea!

Mayrie

 

-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sue Stevens
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:51 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Replacing the stupid ellipses character with
three periods.


Well, how about just turning off autoformat?  Would that do it?  Mine looks
okay, but I haven't done anything to it so it must be set okay.

Sue S.


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Lumpkin
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:53 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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