>I am trying to know where I should go to control those automatic characters which are being replaced as I type in Word or in Outlook, which is probably related to the same dictionary. For examples, whenever I type -, it is replaced with –.
I still have Office 2003; I don't know how similar it is in Office 2010.
The commands (translated back from Spanish...) are something like: "Tools - Autocorrect". There, on tab 1 (Autocorrect), I see some special symbols, like (c) --> the copyright character, as well as commonly mis-spelled words. On Tab 2 there are several options, including one to replace short hyphen by long hyphen.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
