Fw: Emoticons/smileys in Word

[Frank Abate]

Seems to me this is starting to get off-topic . . . or is it?

Anyway, in Word 2000 on my PC, if you type :) the default is to give you a
smiley face.  If you truly want a colon followed by a closed parens, you
must type a "backspace", and the smiley goes away, and you get what you
actually keyed.  The same thing happens with other key combinations in Word.
These are "smart" functions built into Word.  You can turn a lot of this
stuff off, thankfully.

Frank Abate

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rudolph C Troike" <rtroike at U.ARIZONA.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 4:31 AM
Subject: Emoticons/smileys in Word


> I don't use Word, but am just wondering how you keep Word from
> automatically substituting a smiley when you want to type a long vowel at
> the end of a parenthetical remark -- ...a:)  ??
>
>         Rudy
>