An annoying thing...

[Rik]

...well, for me, at least.

In Xara, you can type:
Hello.

And you can type:
Hello..

But, if you type:
Hello...

Then, all of a sudden, the three full stops become one item.

Is that any way of stopping this?

[haakoo]

It's in the auto correct options under the the spell checker button.

[Acorn]

Immediately press Ctrl+Z.
Disable or remove the ellipsis substitution in the AutoCorrect feature.
Type two dots, a space and a dot; delete the space.
...

^ visual pun.

Acorn

[Rik]

It's in the auto correct options under the the spell checker button.

Thanks, haakoo.

It's been bugging me for ages and ages and ages!

[gwpriester]

I always type an ellipse with spaces so . . . vs ...

The proper ellipse is seldom used in contemporary typography

[Acorn]

I always type an ellipse [sic] with spaces so . . . vs ...
The proper ellipse is seldom used in contemporary typography

If you do that, you need to set non-breaking spaces or future edits may break the fake ellipsis.
A non-breaking space is a pain to type in: Alt+0160 on the number pad.
An ellipsis is a genuine form of punctuation and so screen-readers can offer up its correct semantic meaning to those visually impaired.
An ellipsis glyph is only one em wide so it can easily become lost or overlooked.

You are trading 5 characters for one. I accept that it is more impactful, especially if you also want to kern the spaces or track the collection.
My personal solution, I have mapped ... to … . . . in Auto correction with hard (Alt+0160) spaces so I can pick either. Auto correction doesn't handled Kerning or Tracking.

https://creativepro.com/dot-dot-dot/ is worth a read.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

If you do that, you need to set non-breaking spaces or future edits may break the fake ellipsis.

This makes the assumption that the text into which the ellipses have been inserted are either for text that is not proofread/edited, or for the web.

I use improper ellipses when doing books.