Jens Petersen wrote: > Madison Kelly wrote: > >> For example, when I try to type "page" I want to get 'ページ' but all >>I can get is 'ペイジ'. (I got the lengthening stoke for this example by >>copy/paste from a website). > > > I think you want to use "-" for that. > > What did you input exactly, if you type "p e - j i" it should convert > to "ページ". > > Hth, Jens Thanks for the reply, Jens (and Chong)! I thought that might have been it but when I try that the '-' goes back one space and covers the ぺ character. It looks now though like that might be a problem in OpenOffice specifically though. Have either of you run into that before? If so, do you know what might fix it? Madison