Ahhh, that was too easy... no wonder I couldn;t figure it out myself! Thanks!

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

If you don't want Word to replace three periods, do the following: On
the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect. Click the AutoCorrect tab. Locate
the "..." entry, select it, and press Delete. Click OK to close the
dialog box.

Note that if you don't want to delete the AutoCorrect entry, in
situations where you don't want the autocorrection, you can press
Ctrl+Z to undo it.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Scott Atkins" wrote in message
...
For example, I use a lot of "three periods at the end of a sentence"
when I
write... Word replaces the three periods that I type with a single
character
that has three dots in it... I don't like that, because it's much
harder to
see, and if I copy what I just wrote and paste it in to an
application, the
character frequently is turned in to some gibberish character.

As an example, I am typing this response up in Word, rather than in
my
browser window. I want the spellchecking to point out what my
laziness
misses. I will copy it and paste it in to the window and post it.
we shall
see if the "three dot" character comes across distorted or not.