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I have in Word ‘hello’ and when I paste it I get 018hello 019 so the apostrophes turn into these strange characters.
The type of web application should not matter as the behaviour is different depending on the workstation I use.
I checked with Notepad, Excel and Wordpad and this issue does not occur, only for Word.
It should be a Word/IE setting .
Do you know which one ?
Thanks
The quotation marks in word are not the "regular" quotation marks. Word automatically replaces quotations as you type them with fancy ones called "smart quotes". Since your browser does not understand smart quotes it replaces them.
This is known as the Word "smart quotes" feature. There should be a place to turn it off somewhere in the Word settings.
More information can be found at the Quotation mark glyphs Wikipedia article.
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I'd like to gain on the funny guy scale and let people know their are slow. Usually I do that by pasting something like "hey, dude, don't be 🐌" or when talking about e-mail versus 🐌-mail.
Usually, I copy that character by hand from some webpage or another one but it would be so much cooler to be able to 🐌 up the text without it.
Is there a way to "type" in 🐌 or similar on a laptop running Win 10 without specific software installed and without any special keys on the keyboard? I googled it a bit but the hints didn't work out or required some key combos that I can't see on my computer.
In Windows you can insert a Unicode character up to 255 decimal value by holding down alt and typing the decimal value on the numpad (if you have one) then releasing alt, this won't work for the snail though because it is higher than 255 (128012) so that rules out notepad from being able to do it. But apps like word and other rich text editors can enter Unicode characters by typing there unicode hex values then pressing alt+x so to get a snail you would type U+1f40c[ALT+x] (the U+ is optional) other than that it is up to each program to figure out how they want to do it if at all. Happy 🐌ing!
Hit Windows key and Period key at the same time to open the Windows Emoji Keyboard. Then type "snail" and enter to insert the snail emoji. 🐌
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I have two questions I was hoping the community could help me with. I'm specially using CSL in Mendeley with the Microsoft Word plugin.
Do you know how to control the spacing/tab between the number of the citation and the author names? I want this to be a space, but in the style I have it is a tab. I an unable to find this option! Please see screenshot #1.
example of the space between citation number and citation text in the bibliograpy
Is there a way I can control formatting of the bibliography using a word style? For example, I want it to remove the hanging indent and match the font/size of the rest of my document. See Screenshot #2.
example of the difference in formatting between the bibliography list and the remainder of the text of the paper
Many thanks for taking the time to answer these questions!
You can address by removing the second-field-align="flush" from the bibliography line of the style and instead just setting a suffix=" " on <text variable="citation-number"/>. However that will mean (by definition of what a space does) that subsequent lines will not start flush with the text, but will begin at the beginning of the line (though it sounds like that may be what you want anyway?). If you just want the tab to be shorter you can fix that in Word.
No, Mendely and CSL do not allow you to automatically address the Word style you're using. I believe the bibliography will get inserted with its own Word style, though, so you can modify that once and have the changes stick.
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Is there any way, via settings or a custom script, to force the use of ASCII-only encoding in Outlook 2013?
I often pass one-liners and code snippets between myself and other developers, and we will copy-paste them into a command-line prompt for testing various tools. A common issue is that the editor will replace hyphens - with some wider "full width hyphen" or "dash" character, that gets converted to an accented ASCII character when we paste it into prompts.
Right now, we resolve it by pasting it into GVIM on Windows and running a VIM script to handle the conversion, but it's a pain and can be unreliable, especially for other developers who hate using VIM. Since all correspondence is handled in English, French, or Italian anyways (we don't get picky with accents), there's no need for unicode support. Can we turn it off?
Thanks.
No, and this has nothing to do with Unicode support in Outlook. This is how Outlook editor (Word) works.
EDIT: you can turn smart quotes off in Outlook: http://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/2084-outlook-disable-turn-off-smart-quotes.html
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I seem to have gotten Microsoft Word (from Office 2003) into a weird mode.
If I select some text with the mouse and "type over" it, the new text is inserted before the selected text instead of replacing it. Same thing happens if I use the Delete or Backspace key to eliminate it.
The following do work as expected:
1. backspace over the characters I want to delete, one character per keystroke
2. Same thing with the Delete key
3. control-X to "cut" the text.
Does anybody know how to return to "normal" behavior? And for that matter, how I managed to get into this mode?
You have activated the overwrite function!
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-on-or-off-overtype-mode-2fe125af-505f-4ce7-bbea-f0e64e381e75
The comment by MyDog led me to the right answer:
Tools menu ->Options, select the "Edit" pane and check "Typing Replaces Selection".
I have also found out what causes the problem -- at least the immediate cause. If I copy an image from another app (e.g., Irfanview or MS Paint) and paste it into the Word document, that turns off "typing replaces selection". I'm not sure why MS thought this would be a good idea, or if it's just a bug, but at least now I know what causes it, and that I have to turn typeover back on after pasting an image.
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Writing semi technical Functional Requirements 7 Business Requirements I often have to add in words that are Column Names or other data that is separated by underscores.
I'd like to stop Word from flagging words with underscores as spelling mistakes.
Have to use word so can't change to something else :)
Ideally not flagging Camel Cased words as spelling mistakes would be great but that I'm fairly sure isn't possible.
I'd like to not flag fild_name whilst continuing to flag fild?
Is this possible?
Mark the text as No proofing or grammar checked. Select the text then in Word 2010 this can be found under Review->Language->Set Proofing Language and click the Do Not Check Spelling or grammar box.
You could put this in a macro and then put that as a button on the toobar or quick access toolbar and save clicks.