On 7/13/02 11:19 PM, "Allen Watson"  wrote:

> What a lot of todo over a little slip of the fingers! Sorry for the extra ',
> guys! ;-)

No! Don't be sorry. I've been wondering for ages about why whenever I
mis-timed the ' I got two of them. Now that I know what's going on, of
course, I still don't know of any solution, except to try to train my
finger's to put the ' in, but at least I can stop wondering.
> 
> On or near 7/13/02 9:27 PM, Rich Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> 
>> George Clark wrote on 7/13/02 8:23 PM
>> 
>>>> Unless I'm blind (and I may be) the reason for that is that dont' isn't in
>>>> the auto-correct dictionary only dont. So the computer, in typical computer
>>>> fashion, fixes what it knows and leaves the last ' standing.
>>>> 
>>>> Might fix that if you added your problem to the auto-correct pane.
>>> 
>>> Well, "dont'" *is* in my auto-correct entries, as this:
>>> 
>>>   Change: dont'   To: don't
>>> 
>>> It doesn't do that, though; it becomes "don't'". The same thing happens with
>>> "doesnt'", and probably some others.
>>> 
>>> The problem is compounded by the fact that the spell-checker does not flag
>>> it as an error.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> George
>> 
>> Sorry, I should have known. I can see what the problem is though it's
>> because it can't check for opening and closing '. What would happen, in this
>> case only, if you replaced the ' with curly variety I wonder. Probably
>> nothing because if you didn't use "�" and you shouldn't I guess if you don't
>> want the darn things misread by errant PC mail readers. Not to mention that
>> you'd have to remember it each time. :-)
>> 
>> (the font I'm currently using makes very little visual distinction between
>> regular and curly quotes.)
>> 
>> Rich

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