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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Travis" travis_at_charbeneau_dot_net wrote in message ... 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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 |