atw: Re: More on Word 2010
- From: Rhonda Bracey <rhonda.bracey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:26:09 +0800
It may not be an em dash -- it might be a non-breaking hyphen instead. From
memory, Word 2003 inserted a non-breaking hyphen with a symbol that looked like
a cross between an en and em dash, but it had a little hook on it so you could
see it wasn't really one of those at all. In Word 2007 (and thus likely in Word
2010 -- I don't have that computer turned on to check), the non-breaking hyphen
looks more like an en dash and it's hard to tell that it's a non-breaking
hyphen.
Before you go crazy rechecking the entire document or doing a find/replace that
may not work, try inserting a non-breaking hyphen into a blank space in the
document to see if that's what you've really got. You insert it by holding down
Ctrl as you press the hyphen key.
For a word such as 'B-line', I'd want to insert a non-breaking hyphen as I
wouldn't want the 'B' and the 'line' parts separated at the end of a line.
Just a thought...
Rhonda
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Marnell
Sent: Monday, 18 July 2011 8:51 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: More on Word 2010
I typed nothing in the document, so no auto-correction should have occurred.
This document came from a client. There are hundreds of instances of "B-triple"
in it. Now that I've moved the file to another PC and opened it in Word 2007,
every B-triple is B-triple. Did 2010 bugger something up when I saved the file
to a memory stick? Or is 2007 playing funny buggers?
Methinks I'll have to devote a few more hours of unpaid time reading the entire
document before it goes back to the client with what should have only been a
handful of quick edits.
Bugger ... the word of the day.
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Maloney
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 10:36 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: More on Word 2010
Geoffrey,
Word 2010 has possibly automatically applied a default Autoformat As You Type
option, i.e. "Hyphens (--) with dash -" ??? If this Autoformat option IS set up
in your copy of Word 2010, what happens if you turn it off, then re-open the
2007 document?
The above is sheer supposition ... I have no idea how Word 2010 works !!!
Neil.
On 18/07/2011 10:13 AM, Geoffrey Marnell wrote:
But just before we all start singing the praises of MS Word, tell me, folks,
why have all the hyphens in a Word document I opened with Word 2010 suddenly
become em dashes when I opened the same document, unchanged, in Word 2007?
Geoffrey Marnell
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