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I just realized what it may be!! Go enable Japanese in your Windows
installation, and see if the line doesn't appear! (All sorts of extra stuff shows up in Word because of Japanese -- such as a whole third tab in Format Paragraph. Is there a "Vertical Text Box" icon on the Drawing toolbar in a normal installation?) There are two ways of writing a long vowel in Japanese kana (syllable-letters): either by writing the vowel-letter twice, or by a horizontal stroke. On Dec 29, 8:36*am, grammatim wrote: On the AutoFormat panel (the one we've been talking about), directly below the line for "Hyphens (-) with dash (-)." I even tried "Online Help" (and found where you'd quoted the description of the latter from), and there's nothing there. (Are there subversions of Word2003 that I could identify somehow?) I don't know what the AutoCorrect Options button does (or where it would appear if I enabled it). I made my own shortcut keys for macron-letters (since I need them all the time) as well as most of the other accented letters. (Though I haven't gotten around to the Vietnamese set yet.) On Dec 28, 11:41*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Where are you seeing that? It sounds like a description of vowels with a macron over them (Unicode characters found in the Latin Extended-A character subset), but I've never seen this label before. Is it on the AutoCorrect Options button? I've just enabled that button, but I'm not seeing that on the menu when the dash fires. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... Ok, I'll look for "formatted AutoCorrect entries" -- but what is "Long vowel sounds with dash"? |
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No, I'm afraid I don't know anything about that. Perhaps someone else will.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Don" wrote in message 3.102... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in : If you look at the Undo list, you'll see this is an AutoFormat item. It's in the AutoFormat As You Type dialog, and you can disable it completely when you're typing linguistics docs, or, for isolated occurrences, just press Ctrl+Z to cancel it when it occurs. Suzanne, While your here. . . I archive/didgitze many documents/articles. Initially this is all done through WordPad and saved as RTF files. Later when opening these files (clicking) the file association by default is Word, which I'm not looking to change or even address. Rather, my problem is later upon opening these files to create web pages. The text is copied and pasted from withim Word to either Notepad or an HTML tool. The problem that occurrs is that all the standard dashes/hyphens are turned in to question marks (requiring additional editing). The em-dashes which are used frequently in these materials are turned into dashes. Might you suggest a possible solution that would retain the original punctuation upon conversion? Thanks in advance. |
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I was going to suggest that this was probably a result of enabling some
other language option. Since I don't have much use for it, I won't enable this, but I will mention it to my brother who lives and teaches in Japan and is in the process of retyping the Japanese history textbook he created for his classes. In the original version, created some 20-odd years ago, he put the macrons in with pen, but this time (having seen that there was a way to do it in Word, since I do it when addressing letters to him), he finally got around to asking me how to do it and intends to do this version "right." g It would be handy to have something like this (or even Word's keyboard shortcuts) in FrontPage. It was painful to create pages for http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Japan.htm, and in fact, many of them were written in Word and then carefully cut and pasted into FP (and reformatted there to remove Word's garbage). As for the AutoCorrect Options button, when enabled, it generates a tiny little button (almost invisible) when you mouse over a recent AutoCorrect/AutoFormat. If you hover, it opens to a larger button with an arrow. Click on the arrow to get a menu of options. The options are so limited that the button is really almost useless, but one of the options is "stop doing whatever you just did," which changes the setting in the AutoFormat As You Type dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... I just realized what it may be!! Go enable Japanese in your Windows installation, and see if the line doesn't appear! (All sorts of extra stuff shows up in Word because of Japanese -- such as a whole third tab in Format Paragraph. Is there a "Vertical Text Box" icon on the Drawing toolbar in a normal installation?) There are two ways of writing a long vowel in Japanese kana (syllable-letters): either by writing the vowel-letter twice, or by a horizontal stroke. On Dec 29, 8:36 am, grammatim wrote: On the AutoFormat panel (the one we've been talking about), directly below the line for "Hyphens (-) with dash (-)." I even tried "Online Help" (and found where you'd quoted the description of the latter from), and there's nothing there. (Are there subversions of Word2003 that I could identify somehow?) I don't know what the AutoCorrect Options button does (or where it would appear if I enabled it). I made my own shortcut keys for macron-letters (since I need them all the time) as well as most of the other accented letters. (Though I haven't gotten around to the Vietnamese set yet.) On Dec 28, 11:41 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Where are you seeing that? It sounds like a description of vowels with a macron over them (Unicode characters found in the Latin Extended-A character subset), but I've never seen this label before. Is it on the AutoCorrect Options button? I've just enabled that button, but I'm not seeing that on the menu when the dash fires. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... Ok, I'll look for "formatted AutoCorrect entries" -- but what is "Long vowel sounds with dash"? |
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I don't see anything on the front page or a couple of pages I looked
at that has either Japanese script (that's what the long vowel/dash thing refers to) or Japanese in "romaji" (roman-alphabet transliteration), where macrons would be used. (Actually, the O in "Osaka" would have one.) Thanks for explaining the AutoFormat button -- as long as it stays tiny, it might occasionally be useful, but how can I turn off the giant button that appears whenever I Paste text (or even drag and drop/copy) -- or better, can it be changed to a tiny almost-invisible button like the AutoFormat one you describe, since it blocks adjacent text? Recently -- and only recently -- I've been seeing a heavy underline under anything that was AutoFormatted if I happen to hover near it shortly after. Did I do something to cause that to start appearing? Speaking of drag & drop, it's annoying that I can't drag anything if any working windows (Find, X-ref) are open. (But the Styles & Formatting pane doesn't bother it.) On Dec 29, 11:40*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I was going to suggest that this was probably a result of enabling some other language option. Since I don't have much use for it, I won't enable this, but I will mention it to my brother who lives and teaches in Japan and is in the process of retyping the Japanese history textbook he created for his classes. In the original version, created some 20-odd years ago, he put the macrons in with pen, but this time (having seen that there was a way to do it in Word, since I do it when addressing letters to him), he finally got around to asking me how to do it and intends to do this version "right." g It would be handy to have something like this (or even Word's keyboard shortcuts) in FrontPage. It was painful to create pages forhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Japan.htm, and in fact, many of them were written in Word and then carefully cut and pasted into FP (and reformatted there to remove Word's garbage). As for the AutoCorrect Options button, when enabled, it generates a tiny little button (almost invisible) when you mouse over a recent AutoCorrect/AutoFormat. If you hover, it opens to a larger button with an arrow. Click on the arrow to get a menu of options. The options are so limited that the button is really almost useless, but one of the options is "stop doing whatever you just did," which changes the setting in the AutoFormat As You Type dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... I just realized what it may be!! Go enable Japanese in your Windows installation, and see if the line doesn't appear! (All sorts of extra stuff shows up in Word because of Japanese -- such as a whole third tab in Format Paragraph. Is there a "Vertical Text Box" icon on the Drawing toolbar in a normal installation?) There are two ways of writing a long vowel in Japanese kana (syllable-letters): either by writing the vowel-letter twice, or by a horizontal stroke. On Dec 29, 8:36 am, grammatim wrote: On the AutoFormat panel (the one we've been talking about), directly below the line for "Hyphens (-) with dash (-)." I even tried "Online Help" (and found where you'd quoted the description of the latter from), and there's nothing there. (Are there subversions of Word2003 that I could identify somehow?) I don't know what the AutoCorrect Options button does (or where it would appear if I enabled it). I made my own shortcut keys for macron-letters (since I need them all the time) as well as most of the other accented letters. (Though I haven't gotten around to the Vietnamese set yet.) On Dec 28, 11:41 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Where are you seeing that? It sounds like a description of vowels with a macron over them (Unicode characters found in the Latin Extended-A character subset), but I've never seen this label before. Is it on the AutoCorrect Options button? I've just enabled that button, but I'm not seeing that on the menu when the dash fires. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message .... Ok, I'll look for "formatted AutoCorrect entries" -- but what is "Long vowel sounds with dash"?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Starting at the end, I believe the "heavy underline" you're seeing is the
"tiny button" I mentioned. The Paste Options button can be disabled on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. As for dragging and dropping (and other text editing), some dialog boxes are "modal" and some are "modeless." I never remember which is which, but one allows you to "step out" of the dialog and perform other actions, while the other doesn't. Annoyingly, I can move the insertion point while the Insert | Cross-reference dialog is open, but then when I click back in it, the previously selected item is not active, and I have to scroll down to it all over again. If you're just using Find (not Replace), you can close the dialog and use the Browse Arrows to Find Next/Find Previous. And yes, task panes are designed to be able to be left open--one good thing about them. As for my Web pages, the Attractions pages use more romaji, and of course the http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Sidebars/Language.htm page is heavy on it (though probably inconsistent in treatment, given the difficulties; I see I have "romaji" with and without macron in a single paragraph sigh). I made a conscious decision not to use macrons on uppercase. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... I don't see anything on the front page or a couple of pages I looked at that has either Japanese script (that's what the long vowel/dash thing refers to) or Japanese in "romaji" (roman-alphabet transliteration), where macrons would be used. (Actually, the O in "Osaka" would have one.) Thanks for explaining the AutoFormat button -- as long as it stays tiny, it might occasionally be useful, but how can I turn off the giant button that appears whenever I Paste text (or even drag and drop/copy) -- or better, can it be changed to a tiny almost-invisible button like the AutoFormat one you describe, since it blocks adjacent text? Recently -- and only recently -- I've been seeing a heavy underline under anything that was AutoFormatted if I happen to hover near it shortly after. Did I do something to cause that to start appearing? Speaking of drag & drop, it's annoying that I can't drag anything if any working windows (Find, X-ref) are open. (But the Styles & Formatting pane doesn't bother it.) On Dec 29, 11:40 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I was going to suggest that this was probably a result of enabling some other language option. Since I don't have much use for it, I won't enable this, but I will mention it to my brother who lives and teaches in Japan and is in the process of retyping the Japanese history textbook he created for his classes. In the original version, created some 20-odd years ago, he put the macrons in with pen, but this time (having seen that there was a way to do it in Word, since I do it when addressing letters to him), he finally got around to asking me how to do it and intends to do this version "right." g It would be handy to have something like this (or even Word's keyboard shortcuts) in FrontPage. It was painful to create pages forhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Japan.htm, and in fact, many of them were written in Word and then carefully cut and pasted into FP (and reformatted there to remove Word's garbage). As for the AutoCorrect Options button, when enabled, it generates a tiny little button (almost invisible) when you mouse over a recent AutoCorrect/AutoFormat. If you hover, it opens to a larger button with an arrow. Click on the arrow to get a menu of options. The options are so limited that the button is really almost useless, but one of the options is "stop doing whatever you just did," which changes the setting in the AutoFormat As You Type dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... I just realized what it may be!! Go enable Japanese in your Windows installation, and see if the line doesn't appear! (All sorts of extra stuff shows up in Word because of Japanese -- such as a whole third tab in Format Paragraph. Is there a "Vertical Text Box" icon on the Drawing toolbar in a normal installation?) There are two ways of writing a long vowel in Japanese kana (syllable-letters): either by writing the vowel-letter twice, or by a horizontal stroke. On Dec 29, 8:36 am, grammatim wrote: On the AutoFormat panel (the one we've been talking about), directly below the line for "Hyphens (-) with dash (-)." I even tried "Online Help" (and found where you'd quoted the description of the latter from), and there's nothing there. (Are there subversions of Word2003 that I could identify somehow?) I don't know what the AutoCorrect Options button does (or where it would appear if I enabled it). I made my own shortcut keys for macron-letters (since I need them all the time) as well as most of the other accented letters. (Though I haven't gotten around to the Vietnamese set yet.) On Dec 28, 11:41 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Where are you seeing that? It sounds like a description of vowels with a macron over them (Unicode characters found in the Latin Extended-A character subset), but I've never seen this label before. Is it on the AutoCorrect Options button? I've just enabled that button, but I'm not seeing that on the menu when the dash fires. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... Ok, I'll look for "formatted AutoCorrect entries" -- but what is "Long vowel sounds with dash"?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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That's a pretty good essay on Japanese (language and) writing. It's ok
to leave the accents off capital letters in French, but not in Japanese! Have you noticed that you can insert any number of cross references if you don't go back into your document in between? It's useful for things like "(12)-(63)," since you can even scroll around in the Xref window. I then go back to the document and put in the en-dash (if you arrow backward across the second one, go one press beyond the left edge of the gray-highlighted item: the cursor won't move, but it'll be out of the cross reference). When going back to the cross reference window that you've left open, don't click directly on the scroll bar, or it'll be disabled until the window is closed and opened again, and then you can only navigate by selecting something in the window and using the mouse wheel (or the up and down arrow keys). After global things like Smart Quotes and getting rid of double spaces and such when starting on a new document (authors think they're still using typewriters), I mostly use Find-Replace to change single quotes to double quotes (different style manuals have different conventions for different kinds of quoted material), so it's convenient to keep it open and do a Replace All within a selection. It's an annoyance that the Browse Arrows won't find something until it's been found once by the Find window -- especially since I usually want to find something backward, to check how I dealt with it 25 pages earlier! On Dec 29, 12:32*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Starting at the end, I believe the "heavy underline" you're seeing is the "tiny button" I mentioned. The Paste Options button can be disabled on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. As for dragging and dropping (and other text editing), some dialog boxes are "modal" and some are "modeless." I never remember which is which, but one allows you to "step out" of the dialog and perform other actions, while the other doesn't. Annoyingly, I can move the insertion point while the Insert | Cross-reference dialog is open, but then when I click back in it, the previously selected item is not active, and I have to scroll down to it all over again. If you're just using Find (not Replace), you can close the dialog and use the Browse Arrows to Find Next/Find Previous. And yes, task panes are designed to be able to be left open--one good thing about them. As for my Web pages, the Attractions pages use more romaji, and of course thehttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Sidebars/Language.htmpage is heavy on it (though probably inconsistent in treatment, given the difficulties; I see I have "romaji" with and without macron in a single paragraph sigh). I made a conscious decision not to use macrons on uppercase. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... I don't see anything on the front page or a couple of pages I looked at that has either Japanese script (that's what the long vowel/dash thing refers to) or Japanese in "romaji" (roman-alphabet transliteration), where macrons would be used. (Actually, the O in "Osaka" would have one.) Thanks for explaining the AutoFormat button -- as long as it stays tiny, it might occasionally be useful, but how can I turn off the giant button that appears whenever I Paste text (or even drag and drop/copy) -- or better, can it be changed to a tiny almost-invisible button like the AutoFormat one you describe, since it blocks adjacent text? Recently -- and only recently -- I've been seeing a heavy underline under anything that was AutoFormatted if I happen to hover near it shortly after. Did I do something to cause that to start appearing? Speaking of drag & drop, it's annoying that I can't drag anything if any working windows (Find, X-ref) are open. (But the Styles & Formatting pane doesn't bother it.) On Dec 29, 11:40 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I was going to suggest that this was probably a result of enabling some other language option. Since I don't have much use for it, I won't enable this, but I will mention it to my brother who lives and teaches in Japan and is in the process of retyping the Japanese history textbook he created for his classes. In the original version, created some 20-odd years ago, he put the macrons in with pen, but this time (having seen that there was a way to do it in Word, since I do it when addressing letters to him), he finally got around to asking me how to do it and intends to do this version "right." g It would be handy to have something like this (or even Word's keyboard shortcuts) in FrontPage. It was painful to create pages forhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Japan.htm, and in fact, many of them were written in Word and then carefully cut and pasted into FP (and reformatted there to remove Word's garbage). As for the AutoCorrect Options button, when enabled, it generates a tiny little button (almost invisible) when you mouse over a recent AutoCorrect/AutoFormat. If you hover, it opens to a larger button with an arrow. Click on the arrow to get a menu of options. The options are so limited that the button is really almost useless, but one of the options is "stop doing whatever you just did," which changes the setting in the AutoFormat As You Type dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... I just realized what it may be!! Go enable Japanese in your Windows installation, and see if the line doesn't appear! (All sorts of extra stuff shows up in Word because of Japanese -- such as a whole third tab in Format Paragraph. Is there a "Vertical Text Box" icon on the Drawing toolbar in a normal installation?) There are two ways of writing a long vowel in Japanese kana (syllable-letters): either by writing the vowel-letter twice, or by a horizontal stroke. On Dec 29, 8:36 am, grammatim wrote: On the AutoFormat panel (the one we've been talking about), directly below the line for "Hyphens (-) with dash (-)." I even tried "Online Help" (and found where you'd quoted the description of the latter from), and there's nothing there. (Are there subversions of Word2003 that I could identify somehow?) I don't know what the AutoCorrect Options button does (or where it would appear if I enabled it). I made my own shortcut keys for macron-letters (since I need them all the time) as well as most of the other accented letters. (Though I haven't gotten around to the Vietnamese set yet.) On Dec 28, 11:41 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Where are you seeing that? It sounds like a description of vowels with a macron over them (Unicode characters found in the Latin Extended-A character subset), but I've never seen this label before. Is it on the AutoCorrect Options button? I've just enabled that button, but I'm not seeing that on the menu when the dash fires. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... Ok, I'll look for "formatted AutoCorrect entries" -- but what is "Long vowel sounds with dash"?- |
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Although you can choose to search backward from the Find window, you have to
expand the window and make a specific selection to do it; like you, I usually find it easier to click Find Next, close the dialog, and then use the Previous Find/Go To arrow to go back. I rarely need to insert more than one cross-reference in the same place, but that's good info. ISTR that one of the things on the MVP Wish List was to make that dialog modal/modeless (whichever it is that means you can keep it open while you work). So far, it hasn't happened. I guess I hadn't been much aware of macrons on capital letters in Japanese because there are so few proper nouns that begin with vowels. The accenting is haphazard mostly because most of my sources had no accents; when I ran across one that did, I'd go back and put accents on those words where I ran across them, but obviously the results are highly inconsistent. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... That's a pretty good essay on Japanese (language and) writing. It's ok to leave the accents off capital letters in French, but not in Japanese! Have you noticed that you can insert any number of cross references if you don't go back into your document in between? It's useful for things like "(12)-(63)," since you can even scroll around in the Xref window. I then go back to the document and put in the en-dash (if you arrow backward across the second one, go one press beyond the left edge of the gray-highlighted item: the cursor won't move, but it'll be out of the cross reference). When going back to the cross reference window that you've left open, don't click directly on the scroll bar, or it'll be disabled until the window is closed and opened again, and then you can only navigate by selecting something in the window and using the mouse wheel (or the up and down arrow keys). After global things like Smart Quotes and getting rid of double spaces and such when starting on a new document (authors think they're still using typewriters), I mostly use Find-Replace to change single quotes to double quotes (different style manuals have different conventions for different kinds of quoted material), so it's convenient to keep it open and do a Replace All within a selection. It's an annoyance that the Browse Arrows won't find something until it's been found once by the Find window -- especially since I usually want to find something backward, to check how I dealt with it 25 pages earlier! On Dec 29, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Starting at the end, I believe the "heavy underline" you're seeing is the "tiny button" I mentioned. The Paste Options button can be disabled on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. As for dragging and dropping (and other text editing), some dialog boxes are "modal" and some are "modeless." I never remember which is which, but one allows you to "step out" of the dialog and perform other actions, while the other doesn't. Annoyingly, I can move the insertion point while the Insert | Cross-reference dialog is open, but then when I click back in it, the previously selected item is not active, and I have to scroll down to it all over again. If you're just using Find (not Replace), you can close the dialog and use the Browse Arrows to Find Next/Find Previous. And yes, task panes are designed to be able to be left open--one good thing about them. As for my Web pages, the Attractions pages use more romaji, and of course thehttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Sidebars/Language.htmpage is heavy on it (though probably inconsistent in treatment, given the difficulties; I see I have "romaji" with and without macron in a single paragraph sigh). I made a conscious decision not to use macrons on uppercase. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... I don't see anything on the front page or a couple of pages I looked at that has either Japanese script (that's what the long vowel/dash thing refers to) or Japanese in "romaji" (roman-alphabet transliteration), where macrons would be used. (Actually, the O in "Osaka" would have one.) Thanks for explaining the AutoFormat button -- as long as it stays tiny, it might occasionally be useful, but how can I turn off the giant button that appears whenever I Paste text (or even drag and drop/copy) -- or better, can it be changed to a tiny almost-invisible button like the AutoFormat one you describe, since it blocks adjacent text? Recently -- and only recently -- I've been seeing a heavy underline under anything that was AutoFormatted if I happen to hover near it shortly after. Did I do something to cause that to start appearing? Speaking of drag & drop, it's annoying that I can't drag anything if any working windows (Find, X-ref) are open. (But the Styles & Formatting pane doesn't bother it.) On Dec 29, 11:40 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I was going to suggest that this was probably a result of enabling some other language option. Since I don't have much use for it, I won't enable this, but I will mention it to my brother who lives and teaches in Japan and is in the process of retyping the Japanese history textbook he created for his classes. In the original version, created some 20-odd years ago, he put the macrons in with pen, but this time (having seen that there was a way to do it in Word, since I do it when addressing letters to him), he finally got around to asking me how to do it and intends to do this version "right." g It would be handy to have something like this (or even Word's keyboard shortcuts) in FrontPage. It was painful to create pages forhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Japan.htm, and in fact, many of them were written in Word and then carefully cut and pasted into FP (and reformatted there to remove Word's garbage). As for the AutoCorrect Options button, when enabled, it generates a tiny little button (almost invisible) when you mouse over a recent AutoCorrect/AutoFormat. If you hover, it opens to a larger button with an arrow. Click on the arrow to get a menu of options. The options are so limited that the button is really almost useless, but one of the options is "stop doing whatever you just did," which changes the setting in the AutoFormat As You Type dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... I just realized what it may be!! Go enable Japanese in your Windows installation, and see if the line doesn't appear! (All sorts of extra stuff shows up in Word because of Japanese -- such as a whole third tab in Format Paragraph. Is there a "Vertical Text Box" icon on the Drawing toolbar in a normal installation?) There are two ways of writing a long vowel in Japanese kana (syllable-letters): either by writing the vowel-letter twice, or by a horizontal stroke. On Dec 29, 8:36 am, grammatim wrote: On the AutoFormat panel (the one we've been talking about), directly below the line for "Hyphens (-) with dash (-)." I even tried "Online Help" (and found where you'd quoted the description of the latter from), and there's nothing there. (Are there subversions of Word2003 that I could identify somehow?) I don't know what the AutoCorrect Options button does (or where it would appear if I enabled it). I made my own shortcut keys for macron-letters (since I need them all the time) as well as most of the other accented letters. (Though I haven't gotten around to the Vietnamese set yet.) On Dec 28, 11:41 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Where are you seeing that? It sounds like a description of vowels with a macron over them (Unicode characters found in the Latin Extended-A character subset), but I've never seen this label before. Is it on the AutoCorrect Options button? I've just enabled that button, but I'm not seeing that on the menu when the dash fires. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... Ok, I'll look for "formatted AutoCorrect entries" -- but what is "Long vowel sounds with dash"?- |
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On Dec 29, 3:39*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
ISTR that one of the things on the MVP Wish List was to make that dialog modal/modeless (whichever it is that means you can keep it open while you work). So far, it hasn't happened. _All_ dialog windows! How about: allowing Comments in footnotes? And not having to do every global find/replace twice, once for the text and once for the footnotes? I guess I hadn't been much aware of macrons on capital letters in Japanese because there are so few proper nouns that begin with vowels. The accenting is haphazard mostly because most of my sources had no accents; when I ran across one that did, I'd go back and put accents on those words where I ran across them, but obviously the results are highly inconsistent. All you have to do is learn Japanese! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA |
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wish list hyphen turns into en-dash
I believe if you don't interrupt the Replace All, it will do the footnotes
after the document body, and it will Find in the footnotes when it's done with the main body. But this can still be frustrating. I'm currently working on a 600-page document with 470 footnotes. It's infuriating to be using Find and have it (after searching the main document) jump into the footnotes, and then, when I try to return to the previous Find, be told that Word can't find any other occurrences in the footnotes. I have to be careful to remember to move the IP back to the main document story before using Find again. Learning Japanese is one of the many things I aim to do in my next life! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... On Dec 29, 3:39 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: ISTR that one of the things on the MVP Wish List was to make that dialog modal/modeless (whichever it is that means you can keep it open while you work). So far, it hasn't happened. _All_ dialog windows! How about: allowing Comments in footnotes? And not having to do every global find/replace twice, once for the text and once for the footnotes? I guess I hadn't been much aware of macrons on capital letters in Japanese because there are so few proper nouns that begin with vowels. The accenting is haphazard mostly because most of my sources had no accents; when I ran across one that did, I'd go back and put accents on those words where I ran across them, but obviously the results are highly inconsistent. All you have to do is learn Japanese! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA |
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