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Timothy Haerinck

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Jan 24, 2003, 9:55:22 AM1/24/03
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hi

Sometimes word puts a space before the colon. It depends from pc to pc? How
can I change this?

Timothy


Greg Maxey

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Jan 24, 2003, 2:10:34 PM1/24/03
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Timothy,

Odd. How does Word put a space before a colon until after someone puts the
colon there. I mean how does Word know a colon is coming next and inserts a
space?

Are you sure this behavior doesn't occur after the colon is placed. I mean
Word replaces a colon with a leading space then a colon?

If this is case then I suspect on the pc involved that someone has created
an autocorrect entry that replaces : with <space>:

Go to Tools|AutoCorrect Options|AutoCorrect tab. See if there is an enter
to replace : with : and delete it.


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Klaus Linke

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Jan 24, 2003, 2:26:45 PM1/24/03
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Hi Timothy,

If the language of the text is French, this would be standard behaviour.

Word would put protected spaces in front of other punctuation (!, ?, :),
and into « smart quotes », too.

The relevant setting if you don't want that to happen in French text would
be "Tools > AutoCorrect > AutoFormat while typing > Replace straight quotes
with smart quotes".

Greetings,
Klaus

stephen...@coanda.ca

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Dec 16, 2019, 12:59:38 PM12/16/19
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My guess is the language is set to French.
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