Re: Hidden "speech marks" and entry problems "" Word2007
- From: "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 08:39:29 +1000
There is amongst some a tendency to economise on words. To them the "Good"
would have been implied and therefore unnecessary. Particularly amongst
spectators of a sporting event
It probably originated with cricket.
Any idea what that is? <G>
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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I gathered the meaning, but thought maybe "Shot" was an NZ expression. This
had me heading back to the Ngaio Marsh collection. ;-)
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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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He probably meant to say "Good Shot Herb". In other words, your advice
was right on target.
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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Shot Herb"
Where I live, "Shot Herb" would mean somebody'd be planning a memorial
service. ;-)
Glad to help.
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"David Driscole" <daviddriscole (at) gmail (dot) com> wrote in message
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Shot Herb - you got it ; )
We've rest the default to NZ English spelling and US Keyboard input.
Well
done.
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
If she presses 'e, does it convert into é? If so, then check to see if
the
keyboard is set to US or to United States International in the
language
Settings. I'm guessing that it's set to international. US -
International
does what you're seeing. Plain US doesn't.
When set to international, when you press " or ', the system waits to
see
what you press next. If you press an accentable character, the system
swallows the accent and spits out the accented character. If you press
something else, the system then types " or ' respectively. From a
practical
standpoint, that means you have to work harder to type a plain "
character,
but not as hard to type í, ï, or è.
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"David Driscole" <daviddriscole (at) gmail (dot) com> wrote in message
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Thanks Herb - but still no luck.
I checked the settings. Defaults were set at EN US. I've added EN NZ
(and
set as defualt) and modified the keyboard settings to US. Still
keeps
doing
the same thing.
David
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
It looks like she has a foreign keyboard (one that uses "dead keys"
for
inserting accented characters) enabled. On the task bar, is the
language
bar
showing? Ordinarily, is has EN (in the US). If it has ES or FR,
then this
is
the problem. Click the language indicator, and choose EN.
To keep it from happening again... you can either remove the
additional
keyboard languages (unless they're needed), or at the very least,
right-click EN and choose Settings, and set all of the hot keys for
switching input languages to None. Otherwise, certain combinations
of
Shift
and Ctrl can cause this problem to recur... without warning.
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"David Driscole" <daviddriscole (at) gmail (dot) com> wrote in
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Hey there.
I'm the token IT/PC guy at work. One of the girls is having
trouble
using
"speech marks" or "quotation marks" when she is writing in Word.
If they are inserted as you write, the first set "can be seen,
but the
last
set is invisible until you hit enter
Not really a bit problem "", but if she wanted to go back and put
speech
marks around the work problem in this sentence, it would end up
looking
like
it does now.
Any ideas on how to fix it?
Many thanks, David
:: Notes from previous post below ::
Thanks John. I've had a look but that function is allready
enabled.
I'll
move this across to the PC Word group.
Thanks for your suggestion.
"John McGhie" wrote:
Hi David:
Look up "Autocorrect" in the Help and go to Word
Options>Autocorrect
options>Autoformat as you type... And make sure "Replace
straight
quotes
with smart quotes" is enabled.
Hope that's it...
If not, re-post your question in the PC Word group, this one is
for
Mac
Word.
Cheers
On 28/6/07 9:12 AM, in article
83DC5C64-EE50-44D2-B009-3E511952941D@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David
Driscole"
<daviddriscole at gmail dot com> wrote:
Hey there.
I'm the token IT/PC guy at work. One of the girls is having
trouble
using
"speech marks" or "quotation marks" when she is writing in
Word.
If they are inserted as you write, the first set "can be seen,
but
the
last
set is invisible until you hit enter
Not really a bit problem "", but if she wanted to go back and
put
speech
marks around the work problem in this sentance, it would end
up
looking
like
it does now.
Any ideas on how to fix it?
Many thanks, David
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