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Subject:Re: Twilight Zone during Word session??? From:Sean McFerren <McFerrenS -at- PGE-TEXAS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Oct 1998 16:30:22 -0600
John,
This a part of the auto-correct feature in Word97. If you type a colon
immediately followed by a close parenthesis, Word will change it to a
smiley face. You can disable this action by modifying your auto-correct
settings.
**********************************
Sean McFerren
Technical Communication Consultant
Pacific Gas & Electric
Houston, Texas
McFerrenS -at- pge-texas -dot- com
<snip>
I accidently created a smiley face character on my Word document when
attempting to write an end parentheses )
I tried to duplucate the feat and checked a few Word resources to no
avail.
Does anyone out there know about this feature??<snip>
