Em dashes and emojis

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Hasn’t word done this simce about offoce 2007? the autoformat as you type feature, specifically…

    I only know this because I fucking hate it and have been religiously turning it off

    • hibsen@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Weirdly it usually turns hyphens into en dashes instead of em dashes from what I’ve seen, which makes no sense at all.

    • dufkm@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Hasn’t word done this simce about offoce 2007?

      Imagine writing your breakup in Office 2007… I mean, at least use a free and open-source software like LibreOffice.

    • caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org
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      11 hours ago

      But, it’s a text, most likely written on mobile. If I got such text I would ask why they chose m dashes (to which I would get another llm answer)