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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 -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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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. -- 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. "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... 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 -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:58:43 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: 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. Thank you. That's a great tip. 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. It would also be very handy if typing a few characters of the string would position the left column in that part of the list. 5. Because it's "formatted." The same is true of the built-in AutoCorrect entries for Wingdings arrows. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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