(VAXLL23) I've had to turn that "convert dot to arrow" feature off, because I had to type in some code for OLE Automation of Excel:
Range rCol(cell.GetEntireColumn());
rCol.AutoFit();
cell.GetEntireColumn()
Now, I want to hit the "period" key to place a dot on the last line, so that it will eventually look like:
Range rCol(cell.GetEntireColumn());
rCol.AutoFit();
cell.GetEntireColumn().AutoFit();
But I can't, because VAX converts it to an arrow!
Range rCol(cell.GetEntireColumn());
rCol.AutoFit();
cell.GetEntireColumn()->AutoFit(); // Oops!
And there's no way out of this, either, that I could find, so I had to turn that feature off.