[bksvol-discuss] Re: Replacing the stupid ellipses character with three periods.
- From: "Christina" <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:01:30 -0400
Happy to help.
Christina
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From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
>
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>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-----
>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[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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