Lorna_Priest@... wrote:
>
> qalam@yahoogroups.com wrote on 03/09/2006 10:03:06 AM:
>
> > When MSWord makes an (ugly) arrow when you type -->, where does it get
> > it from? It's not the (much nicer) Symbol arrow, and when you choose it,
> > it just claims to be in the font that you typed it in. It even gets
> > sloped when marked Italic, unlike the Symbol arrow. The other AutoText
> > substitutions are just characters in the text font -- curly quotes,
> > ellipsis dots.
>
> You can get rid of the MSWord rule that does this under Tools / Autocorrect
> Options / Autocorrect tab and down where it's got "Replace as you type"
> there are all the things it automatically does. You can turn them all off
> or just delete this one rule. I don't immediately see how you can change a
> rule or add a rule.

I _want_ it to do that. It's a lot quicker than switching fonts every
time I need an arrow.

I also use the underscore-before-and-after to get italics -- much the
fastest way. (But it doesn't work if there isn't a space before the
first underscore.)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...