Just a thought:If in the past you've ever gone in, and deleted the autoformat list entry for the three dots being replaced by an ellipsis, it's just gone and you won't ever know is was even there originally.
The only way you can know if you've deleted the entry some time in the past is if Word, when you're working in a document and type in three dots, doesn't automatically correct to to an ellipsis.
That's one of the reasons it's so dang hard to remember how to get rid of the autocorrect feature for ellipsis. Once you've fixed it, there's no trail left of what you did! smile.
Judy s. Susan Lumpkin wrote:
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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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