Re: Underlining feature in AutoFormat does Ital instead

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From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 23:21:16 -0500

And to clarify further, "Strong" is the HTML code for boldface, and
"Emphasis" for italics. 

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"Stefan Blom" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:O992kkTHEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Isn't the latter occurrence of "Emphasis" in the sentence you're
> quoting displayed in italics in Help?
>
> I currently don't have access to Word 97, but in Word 2000 the
> complete context help text for "Replace *bold* and _italic_ with
> real formatting" (on the AutoFormat As You Type tab of the
> Tools>AutoCorrect dialog box) is the following:
>
> "Applies bold character formatting to words enclosed in asterisks
> (*), and applies italic character formatting to words enclosed in
> underscore characters (_). For example, Word changes *Strong* to
> Strong and _Emphasis_ to Emphasis."
>
>
>
> --
> Stefan Blom
>
>
> "Larry" <larry328@att.net> wrote in message
> news:epWCdW%23GEHA.2160@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Stefan,
>
> What you say is not correct.  The contextualized help item for
> that AutoFormat feature says:
>
> "Word changes _Emphasis_ to Emphasis."
>
> Larry
>
>
>
> Stefan Blom wrote:
> > Word is behaving as expected. The entry on the AutoFormat As
> You
> > Type tab of the Tools > AutoCorrect dialog box reads: "Replace
> > *bold* and _italic_ with real formatting." In other words: a
> word
> > or phrase surrounded by asterisks assume the bold attribute,
> and
> > similarly, underline characters apply the italic attribute.
> >
> >
> > "Larry" <larry328@att.net> wrote in message
> > news:evfPKYmGEHA.1368@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > One of the AutoFormat features in Word 97 is supposed to
> change
> > > underlining
> > > symbols (like _this_) to underlining.  Instead, it changes it
> > to
> > > italics.  Is there any way to correct this?
> > >
> > > Larry
>
>

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