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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Unnamed child
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:37:52 -0700
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060614132523.04b5b7f8@acm.org>


<g> It's not that *hard*, no. Reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling
Windows isn't *hard* either. Nevertheless, I still avoid it whenever
possible. ;) And I find the alt shortcuts extremely inefficient for such
a -- for me -- commonly used character.

But that's just me whinging. :D

D-

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:46 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Unnamed child


DeAnna Burghart wrote:
>If you actually type two endashes (Ctrl+hyphen on the number pad) they'll
>*look* like an emdash, but still be 2 endash units.

No argument here, I've never looked. They appear as an em-dash and
that is all I was interested in (or not as the case was).

> Also, you can type an emdash in Word with Ctrl+Alt+hyphen on the
numberpad.

Yes, in MS/Word, but not in other MS programs (e.g., WordPad) and not
in Notepad (not surprising since it is just a text editor).

>Would that TMG recognized those little shortcuts. I'm a huge fan of
>emdashes, but there's no easy way to use them in TMG.

I don't think it is that hard to open the Windows Character Map
applet (Tools=>External Utilities on the TMG Main Menu), select the
desired character, and copy/paste it into the TMG field (usually
Memo). Of course, you could also hold the Alt key down and type (in
the numeric keypad) "0151" (no quotes) which gives the same results
without the hassle of going to the Window Character Map.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)



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