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I'm working a quickie project that must, for political reasons, be
written in Word/97. I *cannot* figure out how to automatically
separate the autonumbered text in figure captions "Figure
27--Satisfying Sheep" from the caption text. I don't want to follow
the old typewriting convention of using two hyphens "--" instead.
I've tried the following tactics without success:
1) Choosing "Insert Symbol" from the menu. The Autonumber dialog box
won't let me duck out to do it.
2) Storing an em-dash on the clipboard/in the Paste buffer. The
Autonumber dialog box won't let me paste.
3) Typing a double-hyphen and then pressing Enter (works in normal and
table text; Word converts the hyphens to an em-dash, and then you
backspace the cursor to eliminate the carriage return/line feed.)
4) Typing the alt-key combination suggested in the online help. The
dialog box does not allow all-key character entry.
Anyone got a suggestion that works in MS Word/97 + SR1.
