[mso] Re: Word2003: Autocorrect Is Intermittent

Both worked perfectly on mine.  However, it's the key sequence, not the 
text, that's important.

The -- is converted to a dash quite a long time after you type it ...

1915 -- 2008

still has the double hyphen, then type the colon (or whitespace or 
full-stop).  The conversion is done when you type the next (non 
alphanumeric) thing to the right of the 2008.

The 7th

still has the non-subscripted th.  Then type the space.  The conversion is 
done when you type the thing to the right of the "th".

To get a dash (or dash pair) converted, put a space to the right of the 
following word.  Then delete it again if you don't want it.  I.e. if you 
have "1915 -- 2008 something else" and the hyphens haven't converted, type a 
space immediately to the right of the 8, then delete one of the unwanted 
spaces.

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Shapp" <ras45@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 5:19 PM
Subject: [mso] Re: Word2003: Autocorrect Is Intermittent


> HI Dave S, Ken, and pruscoe,
>
> Thanks for your replies.
>
> Here is an instance where autocorrect didn't recognize the ordinal number: 
> "
> We get a nice chance to see this starting on the 7th when the crescent 
> Moon is
> about one degree to the lower left of Mars".
>
> Here is an instance where two consecutive hyphens didn't get converted 
> into a
> dash: "Dave Kuchinsky 1915 -- 2008:  A Remembrance".
>
> Both instances are in a 22-page Word document, I'm using Word 2003
> (11.8169.8172) with Service Pack 3 on a WinXP Pro platform. In this same
> document, other ordinals such as "50th" and "21st" are rendered correctly. 
> I
> have only one instance of the double hyphen.
>
> In a blank test document, I just typed "21st 50th 3rd -- ". The three 
> ordinals
> worked correctly, but the double hyphen did not convert. I don't 
> understand
> why auto correct is intermittent.
>
> Ray Shapp
>
>
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