Ellipsis
An ellipsis can be useful to have in a diagram:
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:
Launch Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
Get the Drawing toolbar to show up if it's not already there. You do
this by going to the View menu | Toolbars | Drawing.Create a line.
Change the dash style to dots.
Increase the thickness.
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 · 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. - Anonymous
March 30, 2004
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
March 30, 2004
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
July 16, 2004
if any one knows the reason why ellipsis has 3 dots and who started using it in math, thanks - Anonymous
June 08, 2009
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