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Re: Inserting Em-dash in Word/97 Autonumber Captions
Subject:Re: Inserting Em-dash in Word/97 Autonumber Captions From:"Gottlieb, Lynn" <Lynn -dot- Gottlieb -at- PSS -dot- BOEING -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:52:21 -0700
I don't have Word 97 but I think my technique will work.
* Place -- wherever you want an em dash in your document
* When done creating your document, select Replace from the Edit
menu (or hit Ctrl-H)
* Enter -- in the Find What box
* Place your cursor in the Replace With box and click once. Then
click on the Special button on the bottom of the page. Select Em Dash
from the popdown menu. Something that looks like ^+ will appear in the
Replace with box.
* You can then choose Replace or Replace All and Word will replace
every (or a particular) occurrence of -- with an em dash.
Lynn Gottlieb
Senior Technical Writer
The Boeing Company
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> From: David Warren[SMTP:David -dot- Warren -at- NEXTEL -dot- COM]
> Reply To: David Warren
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 1998 10:17 AM
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> Subject: Inserting Em-dash in Word/97 Autonumber Captions
>
> Howdy!
>
> I'm working a quickie project that must, for political reasons,
> be
> written in Word/97. I *cannot* figure out how to automatically
> separate the autonumbered text in figure captions "Figure
> 27--Satisfying Sheep" from the caption text. I don't want to
> follow
> the old typewriting convention of using two hyphens "--" instead.
>
> I've tried the following tactics without success:
>
> 1) Choosing "Insert Symbol" from the menu. The Autonumber dialog
> box
> won't let me duck out to do it.
>
> 2) Storing an em-dash on the clipboard/in the Paste buffer. The
> Autonumber dialog box won't let me paste.
>
> 3) Typing a double-hyphen and then pressing Enter (works in
> normal and
> table text; Word converts the hyphens to an em-dash, and then you
> backspace the cursor to eliminate the carriage return/line feed.)
>
> 4) Typing the alt-key combination suggested in the online help.
> The
> dialog box does not allow all-key character entry.
>
> Anyone got a suggestion that works in MS Word/97 + SR1.
>
> Thanks!
>
> David T. Warren
> Pubs. Mgr., Nextel Communications
>
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