tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post3130301023895029049..comments2024-03-28T10:41:26.999-06:00Comments on Blood-Red Pencil: Got a Dash?Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471919576687777886noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-11439018129409540452011-05-10T05:52:14.111-06:002011-05-10T05:52:14.111-06:00In interrupted speech, where I most often use an e...In interrupted speech, where I most often use an em-dash (the longer one) I type the single dash, then a couple of gibberish letters following to force Word to change it to an em-dash then type a speech mark after the gibberish. Then go back and delete the gibberish characters. Voila, a correct em-dash and speech mark.<br /><br />After that it's just a matter of deciding where to put the full-stop/period, inside or outside the quote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-13184313015970236272011-02-03T21:14:59.837-07:002011-02-03T21:14:59.837-07:00Wow, great post! I love finding posts about things...Wow, great post! I love finding posts about things like this. Thanks for sharing.<br /><br /><a href="http://elizabethmueller.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">♥.•*¨ Elizabeth ¨*•.♥</a><br /><br />PS--thank you for following my blog!Elizabeth Muellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06028099814857743134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-81268254174812192372011-02-03T21:10:27.968-07:002011-02-03T21:10:27.968-07:00Thanks for your comments everyone!
Terry, another...Thanks for your comments everyone!<br /><br />Terry, another method that's been shared previously is typing the quotation mark twice and then deleting the first one. <br />Ctrl' CtrlShift" sounds complicated and difficult to remember to begin with, but once you've used it a few times it becomes intuitive. You already need to press Shift to get double quotes; here you just need to remember to press Ctrl first.<br /><br />Elsa Neal<br />HearWriteNow & Blood-Red PencilElle Carter Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02266309723919011181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-60352733879370813212011-02-03T18:19:27.432-07:002011-02-03T18:19:27.432-07:00Great lesson. I am going to share it with my stude...Great lesson. I am going to share it with my students!Michelle Flickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452307689508498982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-83239284022633562912011-02-03T14:02:07.118-07:002011-02-03T14:02:07.118-07:00Dashes are really tricky all right. Sometimes I ge...Dashes are really tricky all right. Sometimes I get long ones when I want short, and vice versa.<br /><br />Morgan Mandel<br />http://morganmandel.blogspot.comMorgan Mandelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10118929301591850918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-61921770816685803282011-02-03T08:42:16.750-07:002011-02-03T08:42:16.750-07:00Great tips. Thank you. I tend to do work-arounds, ...Great tips. Thank you. I tend to do work-arounds, so I'll give these a try.Helen Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794759602654727110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-12494798730424140662011-02-03T08:20:28.762-07:002011-02-03T08:20:28.762-07:00Thanks for the tip. I use straight quotes when I ...Thanks for the tip. I use straight quotes when I type, but the publisher uses curly ones, and I caught a couple of 'wrong way' marks in the ARC I just proofed. <br /><br />If I need quotes after a dash, I just type in a letter and a space, which Word thinks is a word, so it will put the quotes in. Then I backspace to delete it. Not sophisticated, but I figured it out by trial and error. Thanks for the 'real' way to deal with it.<br /><br />Terry<br /><a href="http://terryodell.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Terry's Place</a><br /><a href="http://www.terryodell.com" rel="nofollow">Romance with a Twist--of Mystery</a>Terry Odellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610682530545306687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-18511616623976512852011-02-03T04:52:12.579-07:002011-02-03T04:52:12.579-07:00Until now, I never knew that hyphens and dashes we...Until now, I never knew that hyphens and dashes were not the same thing. Thank you for enlightening me!groovyoldladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07971936982658984234noreply@blogger.com