Word Perfect help needed

[Ken Williams]

I have Word perfect 10 installed using Windows XP home edition. When I type the letter "C" and enclose it in parenthesis, I hit the spacebar and it automatically changes it to a smaller "c" inside what appears to be an octagon. C is the only letter that it does that with. How do I get it to stop doing this?

Thanks,
Ken

[Dave Boothroyd]

Now there is a fine example of what I call "Artificial Stupidity"
It assumes that c in brackets means that you want to type a copyright sign- and never checks whether you really do.
Apart from that little rant, I don't use Wordperfect, so, sorry, I don't know where the option to switch it off would be.
Though you might find out by searching for "copyright" or "special characters" in the help file.
Cheers
Dave

[Donna Dodd]

Ken, I'm not familiar with WordPerfect, but it's most likely similar to how you would delete (c) from "auto-correcting" to copyright within WORD:
Under TOOLS scroll down to "autocorrect", where you should see a list of optional symbols and automatic spelling corrections. click on the(c)and delete. This is the same place you would go to create other automatic text and spelling correction exceptions.
OR, go to HELP and research under "How to".

OR . . . just when the character changes within the document, click the HELP button. It might give you the info right there.

Years ago before I was quite so savy I was working on IRS 501(c)(3)documents to qualify an agency for non-profit tax status.
It was a lengthy process, and IT WOULDN'T LET ME WRITE IT WITHOUT TRYING TO USE THE COPYRIGHT SYMBOL. Made me crazy. And the rest is history.

Good luck!
donna<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Donna Dodd on 17 September 2003 at 02:47 AM.]</p></FONT>

[Ken Williams]

Donna, that fixed my problem. Thank you so much.

You can close this thread.

Ken