Re: What do you call the Three Dots?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

The vertical ellipsis is Unicode 22EE. I usually just copy and paste
since when I Google to get the hex code there's a sample character
right there.

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
> Except there is no way I know of for me to replicate the symbol of three vertical dots using my keyboard and Microsoft Word.
>
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> The vertical ellipsis with no tooltip is common in the app I'm currently documenting. I just say "Click â ..." with the â bolded (as all UI labels are).
>
> It displays the context menu for the object on which it appears, so It's neither "more" nor "overflow."
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