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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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