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AutoFormat As You Type -- Dashes
Word's help describes the "Hyphens with dash" option at
Tools:AutoCorrect:AutoFormat-As-You-Type as follows: "When you type a space and one or two hyphens between text, Microsoft Word automatically inserts an en dash ( - ). If you type two hyphens and do not include a space before the hyphens, then an em dash ( - ) is created." This is meant literally. You have to TYPE something after the hyphens. If you paste, it won't work. Even if you type, the hyphens only get transformed when something like a space, period, or Enter is typed. You can see this by typing: test--test Of course this introduces the possibility of untransformed hyphens unless you limit yourself to editing in only the ways the designers have imagined. What if after the second "test" above you move the cursor elsewhere? What if the second "test", followed by a period, was already there before you entered the "test--" preceding it? These problems make the feature unreliable for getting dashes as intended. |
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AutoFormat As You Type -- Dashes
If you run AutoFormat over text such as you describe, the dashes will be
converted. -- 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. "Uriel" wrote in message ... Word's help describes the "Hyphens with dash" option at Tools:AutoCorrect:AutoFormat-As-You-Type as follows: "When you type a space and one or two hyphens between text, Microsoft Word automatically inserts an en dash ( - ). If you type two hyphens and do not include a space before the hyphens, then an em dash ( - ) is created." This is meant literally. You have to TYPE something after the hyphens. If you paste, it won't work. Even if you type, the hyphens only get transformed when something like a space, period, or Enter is typed. You can see this by typing: test--test Of course this introduces the possibility of untransformed hyphens unless you limit yourself to editing in only the ways the designers have imagined. What if after the second "test" above you move the cursor elsewhere? What if the second "test", followed by a period, was already there before you entered the "test--" preceding it? These problems make the feature unreliable for getting dashes as intended. |
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AutoFormat As You Type -- Dashes
Anyone who sets himself a professional standard of presentation has to have
a standard procedure that's reliable. You can't make little mental notes to yourself whenever you use dashes, telling yourself to run Autoformat later. So in this case you'd have to always run Autoformat anytime you need the document to be correct. But if you have to do that, what's the use of Autoformat-as-you-type? If MS offers a feature, it should work reliably. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... If you run AutoFormat over text such as you describe, the dashes will be converted. -- 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. "Uriel" wrote in message ... Word's help describes the "Hyphens with dash" option at Tools:AutoCorrect:AutoFormat-As-You-Type as follows: "When you type a space and one or two hyphens between text, Microsoft Word automatically inserts an en dash ( - ). If you type two hyphens and do not include a space before the hyphens, then an em dash ( - ) is created." This is meant literally. You have to TYPE something after the hyphens. If you paste, it won't work. Even if you type, the hyphens only get transformed when something like a space, period, or Enter is typed. You can see this by typing: test--test Of course this introduces the possibility of untransformed hyphens unless you limit yourself to editing in only the ways the designers have imagined. What if after the second "test" above you move the cursor elsewhere? What if the second "test", followed by a period, was already there before you entered the "test--" preceding it? These problems make the feature unreliable for getting dashes as intended. |
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AutoFormat As You Type -- Dashes
AutoFormat As You Type means just that, not AutoFormat As You Paste. If you
are pasting in text, you need to run AutoFormat. I don't see that as a very difficult concept. -- 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. "Uriel" wrote in message ... Anyone who sets himself a professional standard of presentation has to have a standard procedure that's reliable. You can't make little mental notes to yourself whenever you use dashes, telling yourself to run Autoformat later. So in this case you'd have to always run Autoformat anytime you need the document to be correct. But if you have to do that, what's the use of Autoformat-as-you-type? If MS offers a feature, it should work reliably. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... If you run AutoFormat over text such as you describe, the dashes will be converted. -- 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. "Uriel" wrote in message ... Word's help describes the "Hyphens with dash" option at Tools:AutoCorrect:AutoFormat-As-You-Type as follows: "When you type a space and one or two hyphens between text, Microsoft Word automatically inserts an en dash ( - ). If you type two hyphens and do not include a space before the hyphens, then an em dash ( - ) is created." This is meant literally. You have to TYPE something after the hyphens. If you paste, it won't work. Even if you type, the hyphens only get transformed when something like a space, period, or Enter is typed. You can see this by typing: test--test Of course this introduces the possibility of untransformed hyphens unless you limit yourself to editing in only the ways the designers have imagined. What if after the second "test" above you move the cursor elsewhere? What if the second "test", followed by a period, was already there before you entered the "test--" preceding it? These problems make the feature unreliable for getting dashes as intended. |
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AutoFormat As You Type -- Dashes
AutoFormat As You Type means just that, not AutoFormat As You Paste.
This reminds me of a news report last May about how a lot of the antiterrorism screening devices the government bought, at a cost of more than $4.5 BILLION, were effectively junk and would have to be replaced. Among the problems: - radiation monitors, for ports and borders, that cannot differentiate between radiation emitted by a nuclear bomb and naturally occurring radiation from everyday material like cat litter or ceramic tile - air-monitoring detectors, for major cities, that do not produce results for up to 36 hours -- long after a biological attack would potentially infect thousands of people (See "U.S. to Spend Billions More to Alter Security Systems," New York Times, May 8, 2005.) I'm sure the vendors defended their stupid products the same way you're defending MS: "Hey, the devices do exactly what we said they'd do." "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... AutoFormat As You Type means just that, not AutoFormat As You Paste. If you are pasting in text, you need to run AutoFormat. I don't see that as a very difficult concept. -- 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. "Uriel" wrote in message ... Anyone who sets himself a professional standard of presentation has to have a standard procedure that's reliable. You can't make little mental notes to yourself whenever you use dashes, telling yourself to run Autoformat later. So in this case you'd have to always run Autoformat anytime you need the document to be correct. But if you have to do that, what's the use of Autoformat-as-you-type? If MS offers a feature, it should work reliably. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... If you run AutoFormat over text such as you describe, the dashes will be converted. -- 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. "Uriel" wrote in message ... Word's help describes the "Hyphens with dash" option at Tools:AutoCorrect:AutoFormat-As-You-Type as follows: "When you type a space and one or two hyphens between text, Microsoft Word automatically inserts an en dash ( - ). If you type two hyphens and do not include a space before the hyphens, then an em dash ( - ) is created." This is meant literally. You have to TYPE something after the hyphens. If you paste, it won't work. Even if you type, the hyphens only get transformed when something like a space, period, or Enter is typed. You can see this by typing: test--test Of course this introduces the possibility of untransformed hyphens unless you limit yourself to editing in only the ways the designers have imagined. What if after the second "test" above you move the cursor elsewhere? What if the second "test", followed by a period, was already there before you entered the "test--" preceding it? These problems make the feature unreliable for getting dashes as intended. |
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