1. Insert the arrow in your document. Select it and open Tools | AutoCorrect
Options. It will already be inserted in the "With" box. Be sure to check the
"Formatted text" radio button.
2. Insert any of these built-in AutoCorrect arrows, select it, and open the
Insert Symbol dialog. The corresponding Wingdings character will be
selected.
3. Any AutoCorrect entry is inserted when you press the spacebar or type a
"punctuation" character. The built-in arrows are made up of "punctuation,"
so they are inserted immediately; your "Replace" text ends with an
alphabetic character, so you don't get the same effect. What happens if you
use v-- instead? (Possibly not a good idea if you ever want an em dash
following a v.)
4. Good question.
5. Because it's "formatted." The same is true of the built-in AutoCorrect
entries for Wingdings arrows.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"LurfysMa" wrote in message
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Some time ago I discovered that typing "--" will generate a light
right-arrow character and "==" wihh generate a bold right-arrow key.
There are similar combinations for left arrow.
There are no combinations for the up or down arrows. I see in the
Autocorrect tab that there is a table containing these replacement
combinations.
I would like to to add "--v" and "--^" (or something) for down and up
arrows. I encounterred two problems:
1. How to get the special character into the right column of the
table. I was able to paste a character by closing the Autocorrect
panel, inserting a character using Insert Symbol, then grab that
character using Ctrl-C, then reopening the Autocorrect panel and
pasting it (Ctrl-V) into the table. Whew. Is there an easier way?
2. I was not able to find the exact left adn right arrow symbols that
are already in the autocorrect table for "--" and "--". The closest
ones I could find were in the Wingdings font, but they are slightly
different. Where are the arrow symbols that are in the built-in
autocorrect settings?
3. How come "--" gets replaced as soon as I type the "", but my new
combination ("--v") doesn't get replaced until I hit the space bar?
This is only a minor problem. If I want the down arrow immediately
followed by a non-space I have to hit the space and then backspace.
4. How come my "--v" string is put down with the V's in the table
rather than up with the special characters?
5. How come my dpwn arrow character is shown in a much larger windon=w
in the table (2 lines tall)?
Thanks.
Using Windows/Word/Office 2000
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Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000