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

  • From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:04:38 -0500

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
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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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