On 8/16/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
But what do you do when you typed ''' but meant ''... and it's gone now? :-)
Backspace. That's the convention in word processors for when it magically converts something you typed to something else. For instance, if you type a URL-looking thing in Word, then hit space, you'll get blue and underlining. If you immediately hit backspace, the blue and underlining disappears, but the space you entered remains: no actual character is erased, it reinterprets the key as meaning "undo the last automatic conversion" if that's applicable.
I think you can no longer do that as soon as you hit any other key, though. It has to be immediate.