How to change the default ':' in subsection to paren ')'?

Question

In latex, when I write ,

\subsubsection*{a}

it produces

a:

but I want to write

a)

How should I do this.

Answer 1

The following minimal example produces what you're after, modifying the "punctuation" of IEEEtran from : to ):

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}% http://ctan.org/pkg/ieeetran
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@IEEEsectpunct}{)\ \,}% Modified from {:\ \,}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\section{A section}
\subsection{A subsection}
\subsubsection*{a}
\subsubsection*{b}
\subsubsection*{c}
​\end{document}​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

You could, of course, also just use a list environment to obtain the same numbering...