OL2003 Auto inserts space before ? and !

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David Lipetz

Using Outlook 2003 with Word as the email editor, a space is being
automatically inserted before question marks and exclamation points. This
started recently and I don't know why. How do I disable this?

Thanks,
David
 
David said:
Using Outlook 2003 with Word as the email editor, a space is being
automatically inserted before question marks and exclamation points. This
started recently and I don't know why. How do I disable this?

Thanks,
David
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You probably have it set to British English.

Alias
 
David said:
Using Outlook 2003 with Word as the email editor, a space is being
automatically inserted before question marks and exclamation points. This
started recently and I don't know why. How do I disable this?

Thanks,
David
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Is it set to British English?

Alias
 
Is what set to British English? Where should I look? I poked around
Tools/Options and Tools/AutoCorrect Options and did not see any parameter
for language.
 
David said:
Is what set to British English? Where should I look? I poked around
Tools/Options and Tools/AutoCorrect Options and did not see any parameter
for language.
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Outlook reacts to whatever you have your keyboard set to. Check that.

Alias
 
Not French. Plain old English.

Where are places I should look to see if something is set correctly. Where
is the keyboard setting? It's not in Control Panel that I can find (WinXP
Pro SP3)
 
Double checked. There are no AutoCorrect settings for ? or !.

Dictionary is set to English (U.S.) for what that's worth.



Diane Poremsky said:
check autocorrect first. Make sure you don't have a definition to convert
! to " !" and ? to " ?".

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David Lipetz said:
Not French. Plain old English.

Where are places I should look to see if something is set correctly.
Where is the keyboard setting? It's not in Control Panel that I can find
(WinXP Pro SP3)
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Word is the editor? Check the goofy settings for things like word perfect
compatibility - I don't think that specific one causes it but something in
the compatibility options might.

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David Lipetz said:
Double checked. There are no AutoCorrect settings for ? or !.

Dictionary is set to English (U.S.) for what that's worth.



Diane Poremsky said:
check autocorrect first. Make sure you don't have a definition to convert
! to " !" and ? to " ?".

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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David Lipetz said:
Not French. Plain old English.

Where are places I should look to see if something is set correctly.
Where is the keyboard setting? It's not in Control Panel that I can find
(WinXP Pro SP3)


"John Nice" <johnDOTniceATbtinternetDOTcom> wrote in message

David Lipetz wrote:
Is what set to British English? Where should I look? I poked around
Tools/Options and Tools/AutoCorrect Options and did not see any
parameter for language.

Outlook reacts to whatever you have your keyboard set to. Check that.

Alias



My languages - keyboard, etc - are all set to British and I have no
problems with auto space insert, neither in Outlook nor Word, so the
British English thing doesn't look correct. Googling "space before
question mark" threw up a Wikipedia reference to what is called French
punctuation, where it is customary to insert a space before query or
screamer. Vous n'etes pas francais?

John
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