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Daiya Mitchell
 
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Hi Travis,
I was able to "re-instruct" auto-correct's take on the ellipsis by deleting
the
rule, then replacing it with a new rule: three periods to be replaced by three
periods, rather than the un-text-exportable "ellipsis" character

What's the point of this new rule? Why not just delete the entry, and then
when you type three periods, nothing happens. Isn't that what you wanted?
Whether or not this keeps the auto-cap from
breaking them at lines remains to be seen, but merely deleting the rule would
almost
surely do so.

One of us is confused. The point about Word's ellipsis is that it will stay
together, because it is one character. Three periods may or may not break
at a line (I'm not sure, but I think they will), but the AutoCorrect entry
for the ellipsis doesn't have anything to do with whether Word uses a period
as a trigger to wrap a line. Or am I misunderstanding what you say?

Nor is auto-cap relevant to line wrapping. Auto-cap comes into play because
Word capitalizes any word after a period (unless there is a number before
the period). It will see your ellipsis as three periods (as it is), and
probably capitalize the next word.

Daiya