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Classic Shell. Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn’t match my screen. Have you ever had a line appear on your document that you can’t seem to get rid of? It could be due to a built-in Type a few dashes, underscores, or equal signs, and you could end up with a full-width line in your document.

This is Want an easy way to add lines in your document? You can do it by making sure Word is using one of its AutoFormat features. Enter your address and click “Subscribe. Your e-mail address is not shared with anyone, ever. Maximum image size is 6Mpixels. Images larger than px wide or px tall will be reduced. Up to three images may be included in a comment. All images are subject to review. Commenting privileges may be curtailed if inappropriate images are posted.

Reading all the comments reconfirms me in my view that Microsoft needs to acquire the rights to WordPerfect and introduce its most useful features into Word. In some ways Word is still clunky. Top of the priority list is Reveal Codes. MS’s ‘version’ is poor in comparison. For those who don’t know, in WordPerfect you can actually see all the formatting codes and delete or insert in the exact places as necessary. Next is paragraph numbering and formatting.

No, I no longer use WordPerfect, but was once a ‘power user’. Just to say this tip was very helpful. On doing a quick search of the web could not find this simple instruction at all on the MS site. Thank you, Allen! I already get your tip-emails. Unfortunately this tip didn’t help my case with word, but it was a good tip to venture into the option settings to attempt a fix.

My case was more to fix auto indenting when a word file has columns. Where the 2nd column wouldnt stop auto indenting and backspacing into the next indent rather then flush with the column start. The workaround was filling in text from the bottom of the 1st column to fill in to the 2nd column then start the section I originally intended to write, where I wanted to write it. Then backspace all the filler text out until my original 2nd column starts flush at the top.

Thank you, Allen, this was driving me mad! Isn’t it funny how Word can do that?! Hmm – it looks like I’ve finally solved it. The text that I was editing had tab stops set within the paragraph formatting, and I think that this was causing the behaviour.

Once I removed all tab stops, things seemed to work properly. What’s odd is that I found this tip while searching for the exact opposite! I’m used to using tab to indent the first line of a paragraph, but I’ve just purchased a new PC, and it’s not behaving like my old PC!

The tab key merely inserts a tab character, even though the “set left- and first-indent with tabs and backspaces” checkbox is checked.

 
 

Microsoft word 2016 turn off autocorrect free. How to use Autocorrect in Word 2016 Windows

 
On the AutoCorrect tab, select or clear Replace text as you type. In the Language box, click Don’t check spelling or grammar, and then click OK. turning off automatic spell check. Remember to run spell check. Spelling and.

 

Microsoft word 2016 turn off autocorrect free

 

You have made me human again. This is why I end up doing everything in Notepad or Wordpad. MS absolutely ruined Word with the version. Why has Word capitalized my entire document? And how can I undo this and no, my caps lock is not on!

When I oipen a word doc and even do a simple save as it goes into updating the fields automatically. When this happens it saves and screwes up my doc and TOC. How do you turn off automatic updating of fields? How do I fix it.

Writing my sentences and spilling onto the next line and it does that automatically. In Word , it does not seem possible to turn of automatic formatting of styles, resulting in creating new styles. How do I stop Word from creating new styles with formatting changes? Does not work. But my main grouse is that my style list keeps getting populated with these unecessary styles. When I am typing in Microsoft Works Word Processor something that is affiliated with Microsoft Word I will make a mistake and realize it a few lines down.

When I place my cursor where the mistake is, and hit the Backspace to delete it, and begin to type what should be there, it deletes the text following it, messing everything following the error up.

How do I fix this? I turned off everything in Autoformat and Autoformat While Typing but the follow issue persists. I have to click undo to return the documents to its original state.

Luckily, the formatting I intended also stays. I have to do this with every format I apply; center, numbers, bullets, color, etc. So I can apply new formatting but have to click Undo after each setting. It toggles from an insert function to a replace function when pressed. And despite having ticked AutoCorrect to eliminate two initial capitals, it will not do that — or rather — it will only do it sometimes.

Can you possibly help, please? Regards, Juergen. After a crash in word document stop responding when I saved the file , it auto-formated my crashed document instead of opening a backup file when I re-opened it. All the format in the document are corrupted. Thank you for your help. I am having so many problems with a Word Doc that was created a few years back and now has to be updated and revamped.

The first thing we needed to do was make it a fillable form, whih we did. Also, we created footnote for copyright prtection on each page and the typing iss running into the footer? Best solution is to get a Apple Mac and learn to use Pages.

You can import and export Word documents with very little risk to formatting. It does not try to guess what you want to do and is significantly better designed.

You are welcome. Please advise on how to stop it. Hi Leo, please help. I have followed your advice but I am still having trouble with the latest version of word. The normal word dot dot on my laptop has different configurations to a windows server, like font size, margins, paragraphs — all are different on both, even though I copied across the normal dot dot from the server How do I get my laptop and server to run the same and mirror each other? Hi leo, I use msword to create books and sometimes without warning the font size in my document map is changed on me without my doing it.

What is causing this to happen and how can i fix this problem? No matter what i do, create list styles from scratch and multi-level lists, i define all fonts and still when applying to a document it goes nuts on me. There are several areas where font can be applied, so it is confusing. I found atleast three places where i think i am putting the right controls in place, but nope, not happening. Also, when doing this always makes you choose to do it just for this document or future documents.

I want this to be a default in my library so i select for future documents. There is no add to library option. I have named it though does not appear anywhere. Applying just for thi doc yields no desired results as well. Microsoft is such a horrible implementation of list styles and multi-level lists been looking everywhere but only get high level instruction, nothing that answers these questions where i can actually execute. Hi Leo.

After much frustration I got to your site. All of the sudden my 3 dashes follow by enter that used to give me a line across the page just like I wanted in MS got me locked up above that line and I could not write anything below! That works great…. But for the life of me how do you bring up that symbol when you need it?

No one seems to mention it. Most of the posts and helps entry I read tell you to use that process and as I just say it does not help me. Thanks for any help on this. Regards MM.

I kind of found my own answer or part answer! Possibly there is a smarter way to get that icon showing on the page when you need it but I could not find it. PS Leo on your site I see a lot of questions but not so many answers, am I missing something? I am so frustrated with Word and its autoformatting. Even when I ask it to insert text without formatting in the middle of a formatted list, it unnecessarily changes the indentation, but if I type the same text in by hand, it does not.

What kind of mind produces this junk software? Word changes the first letter in a sentence to upper case, even when I do not want it to. I have switched off almost all autoformat and autocorrect features, but nothing helps.

I have solved the problem in my previous question. I have Word documents from older versions of Word right through Word that are being ruined when I open them now because of the automatic date problem. Archived documents must retain their original dates. How do we turn this off, please, in Word , , , ? Thank you. I typed something in Tamil using a writer.

When I opened the page after two days the gap between words disappeared. The whole book about to go for printing got corrupted.

With regards, R. Hi Leo, How are you? I sure hope that you can help with this very frustrating problem. I think, but am not certain, that this began after I upgraded this Dell laptop to Windows 13 from 8 I think? It has seemingly gotten progressively worse over time. Is this a problem you are having on a laptop? That often happens on a laptop if your hand inadvertently touches the track pad and selects a block of text. Solutions for that are to turn off the track pad if your computer allows it or tape a piece of thick paper over the track pad and use an external mouse.

I keep getting a word blank page that freezes my computer and after a while another window pops up in top left corner that is asking me which pictures do you want to copy? Then it starts spinning and after a while it gives me another screen with a folder showing a file name s First, thank you for this service after all these years.

Also, under the document properties should the boxes, File is ready for archiving and For fast searching, allow Indexing Service to index this file be checked? I am using a old laptop that has Word that recently started auto converting my documents to Word I want to stop this from automatically happening as now, some documents do not open which are resumes to get a job and buy a new computer.

Word assumes you are editing the document, and this is a temporary file that is created as part of that process. It should be deleted when you close Word. If you use Windows built-in search allowing it to be indexed can speed things up a little.

I assume you mean. If you find them, and Word is not open, then it is safe to delete those files. Hi Leo, When working in a Word document, I must be inadvertently turning on something that causes all subsequent typing to be in red letters that are underlined. I have tried without success to turn it off. My only way to eliminate it is to close the document and lose all my work since opening it.

Thanks for your help. How do I turn off that feature where word tries to suggest shortened phrases? I was working on a word document. I have used Office Word since it first came out, and I continue to spend more time trying to get it to allow me to do what i want to do than getting my work done. I minored in English in university and I know how to enter correctly and indent Roman numerals, capital letters, numerals, lower case letters, parenthesized letters, and such.

And Office Word has forced me to do them incorrectly up to now. Not only can it not read my mind. It absolutely refuses to allow me to override anything it changes. Granted: There are advantages in using a word processing program that provides spell check, that provides the feature of highlighting and moving portions of a sentence, to improve clarity, that provides the feature of highlighting and dragging as , for example, when I wish to change the place of a paragraph in a numbered sequence.

But overall Office Word blocks me from doing things that are correct, that it second guesses are not correct. And, when it does that — as it does frequently — and will not let me override its wrong guesses, it more than doubles the amount of manual labor I must do to try to find a work around to it.

As i write this, I am fighting against expressing myself in crude, insulting and and obscene language and phrases. No one would want to read what I really think and feel.

And this increasingly makes it an object of my resentment and anger. I used to be able to get a smiley face when typing : in the Office Outlook version I am forced to use at work, lol.

But this has disappeared and I really want it back. However, I do not have an autocorrect option in any menus. Thank you mucho! I guess I am getting too old, when young I could do almost everything, now I was not able to use word pad. I was trying to get a post to be aligned on the left side, and also on the right side, just like when one writes a regular letter.

I enter the autocorrect and it seems to accept it but when I type the word, nothing happens. Does anyone have any idea how I can put this right? Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don’t add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam.

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Search Ask Leo! How do I turn off automatic formatting in Microsoft Word? Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I’ll see you there! To close to formating marks Reply. Any suggestions? How come my text gets deleted when I space or put another letter before a word in a sentence? See if formating marks are on top or near key you type. They take out entire message Reply.

Please help as this is absolutely killing me. Reubin Reply. Thanks for any help you can provide. Is there anything else I can do? Any ideas, your assistance would be apreciated? Thank you, Reply. How do you do fractions in PageMaker7. Hey guys! It fixed my problem when I deselected that. Any ideas? Thanks Rich Reply. Thank you! Thanks Ted Reply. I too am fed up the mess microsoft have made of word with all their crappy pre-emtive features.

I tried everything suggested. Thanks again, Lloyd Reply. For example, creating a macro mapped to Alt-V to do a Reply. I was having the same problem of the styles automatically changing through the whole document whenever I made a change and have found the answer Reply.

Everytime I try to insert a text box in my word document it puts in the strange characters how can I get rid of this because it also prints in my documents, Reply. I had the same problem on OSX using Office I live with it ;- Reply. Thanks Reply. Regards, Juergen Reply.

Thank you for your help Reply. Hi Leo, I am having so many problems with a Word Doc that was created a few years back and now has to be updated and revamped. How can I stop all of this unwnated format stuff and just make it easy? Greg Reply. Thank you Reply. Regards MM Reply. What am I missing? You must be logged in to post a comment. Applicability: Office , , ; Office and Standard.

How to run spelling check in Excel? First things first, the Excel spell checker is located in the Review tab. In order to proof check your worksheet text, follow this process: Open your workbook and navigate to your worksheet. In the Ribbon, open the Review tab. Hit on Spelling. Your worksheet will be analyzed for errors, and Excel will provide suggested corrections in the Spelling dialog. In case of false-positives, you could Add to Dictionary relevant words or terms.

Alternatively, hitting the F7 button will achieve the same results. Once done, hit on OK. Save your work as needed. Enable Auto-Correct in Excel The Spelling dialog which we just reviewed in the section above also allows you to trigger an AutoCorrect action. Some of the auto-correction rules you can define: Automatic capitalization of first letters in a sentence.

Capitalization of Days Correction of Caps Lock accidentally pressed. And any automatic text replacement you might have Note: Remember, the AutoCorrect capability spell check is not triggered automatically in Excel, you have to invoke it on your own.

 
 

How to use Autocorrect in Word for Windows – Online Typing

 
 

This way you’ll know which add-in is the culprit. Step 1 : Make sure you have the Word document open where spell check is not working. Step 2 : Click on the File tab and select Options. Step 2 : Click on the File tab in the menu bar and select Options. Spell check is a cool feature of Word that speeds up your productivity. And now you know how to fix it if it fails. Here is how you can do it:. Note: If the Hide spelling errors in this document-only option is unchecked and greyed out, you need to enable the Check spelling as you type option.

You need to turn on this feature so Word will spell check your document in real-time and use the red line to signal you any misspelled words. Tip The AutoCorrect feature is enabled by default in most programs. How to enable and disable Microsoft Word AutoFormat feature. Telegram Premium. File Explorer Tabs in Windows Google Maps Air Quality. Detect Hidden Surveillance Cameras. Use Your iPhone as a Webcam.

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Figure 2- Add Misspelling to Autocorrect. Note that you can switch off any of the options by unchecking the boxes.

Once your automatic correction is added you will never see that typo again. You will see that there is a list of miss-spellings already in the Autocorrect preferences dialogue box. I really love this feature and love the fact that it beavers away in the background taking the pressure off me to remember to correct my habitual mis-spelling.

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