FWIW, the ellipsis is Unicode character 2026 (ANSI 0133). It's in the
General Punctuation character subset in Insert | Symbol. But my main point
was that you do not need an AutoCorrect entry to replace three periods with
three periods (any more than you need one to replace a with a, b with b,
etc.); just deleting the existing AutoCorrect entry is sufficient.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Travis" travis_at_charbeneau_dot_net wrote in message
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Suzanne,

I defer to you, natch, and will remember this if I encounter the problem
again. I
visited and marked your Word MVP FAQ site for future pestering.

It really wouldn't matter if I didn't need reliable export to text. My
"all-text"
email inclusion stuff is the reason I was able to limp along on
Volkswriter all
these years after its demise.

As I noted to Julie above, I got lost in Autocorrect before getting a
chance to try
the simple Ctrl-Z undo. And I'm not sufficiently curious to resurrect
whatever
character it is that Autocorrect substitutes for the "homemade" ellipsis.
It's not
listed in Ctrl-F as one of the "Special" characters.

Many thanks,

Travis




"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I will merely repeat that none of that is necessary. You can accomplish
exactly the same thing by merely deleting the AutoCorrect entry or
pressing
Ctrl+Z after the AutoCorrect fires. All the behaviors you describe are
the
inherent default behaviors of three periods.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Travis" travis_at_charbeneau_dot_net wrote in message
...
So far, pushed to one character within the line break, my good old tri-
dot
is
treated as one character and moved to the next line intact. Auto-cap
respects my new
rule (or the gods have intervened) and treats the ellipsis as a special
case. When I
replace it with a single period, Auto-cap is back on the job. I didn't
need to make
an exception. My rule rules!

So. For ellipsis: Don't use "period, space, period, space etc." as it's
too big and
will just break up and/or trigger Auto-cap (Auto-cap does seem to
demand a
proper
sentence, so the spaces might prevent capitalization, but they do break
up). Don't
just delete the rule that substitutes the Word "micro-ellipsis
character"
for your
three periods or, same problem. Make up a _new_ rule: "replace three
periods with
three periods."

And it exports to text!

Thanks again for your help,

Travis


"Travis" travis_at_charbeneau_dot_net wrote in message
...
Daiya,

Ah the confusion is mine. When I read "then AutoCorrect
capitalization
fires, and
I think the three dots will
break at lines." I was reading that as the first _causing_ the
second,
not two
separate consequences.

I'll investigate turning Auto Cap off or creating an exception.

I only recently turned from 1992 Volkswriter (still runs! but won't
print under
XP)
and am a real dummie with Word. What? You can tell?

I was hoping that my new "rule" would create an exception to line
breaking, and,
now, Auto-Cap treating the period as just a period. Hey. There's a
"rule"! "Treat
these three periods as a single character." Just deleting the rule
indeed gets me
what I want, but, apparently, only until it's broken in a line or the
following
letter is capitalized, then I'm back at work struggling to get an
exportable
ellipsis.

'Probably won't work, but I'll find out soon enough.

I shall report my findings to the committee.

Travis



"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
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