thomas steel:
*From:* THOMAS STEEL <mailto:[email protected]> *Sent:* Friday, January 27, 2012 9:44 AM *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> *Subject:* hyphens & apostrophes I am struggling to recustomise OOWriter for a new computer after burglary. Am trying (1) to enable replacement of some hyphens by em & en dashes (used to work by hitting hyphen twice).
As Anthony pointed out, make sure Format menu > AutoCorrect > While Typing is ticked (click the menu item to toggle it if not). If that doesn't work, check that the specific options are set...
From the Tools menu > AutoCorrect Options > Options tab, tick the box in the [T] column next to "Replace dashes". Clicking the "Help" button in that dialog gives a description of the options, including which combinations of dashes are replaced.
Trying (2) to replace apostrophe mark (small vertical mark) with an apostrophe comma---permanently.
From the same dialog (Tools > AutoCorrect Options), but on the Custom Quotes tab, tick "Replace" for the types of quotes (single or double) you want to replace. You can also check that the replacement characters are correct (not easy to tell in the dialog, but clicking them shows the currently selected characters more clearly and allows you to change them).
Have spent hours using Help to no effect. Please can someone help me? TM Steel
Hope that helps, Mark. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
