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Ellipsis

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An ellipsis can be useful to have in a diagram:

[diagram picture]

I've been asked on several occasions how to make one of these puppies, so I
thought I'd publish the steps I saw one of my coworkers use:

  1. Launch Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

  2. Get the Drawing toolbar to show up if it's not already there.  You do
    this by going to the View menu | Toolbars | Drawing.

  3. Create a line.

    [image]

  4. Change the dash style to dots.

    [image]

  5. Increase the thickness.

    [image]

  6. And viola!

As a side note, I was tempted to title this entry "dot dot dot" until I found the real

name in the dictionary.

From Merriam-Webster:

1 a : the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete b : a sudden leap from one topic to another2 : marks or a mark (as ... or ยท or --) indicating an omission (as of words) or a pause

To think, my English vocabulary is actually improving by maintaining this blog.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2004
    alt-0133 on the numeric keypad is the elipsis character.
  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2004
    Traditionally, an elipsis has only 3 dots.
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    March 30, 2004
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    March 30, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2004
    if any one knows the reason why ellipsis has 3 dots and who started using it in math, thanks
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    June 08, 2009
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