Any way to turn off the drop down menus that appear after pasting...??

[stedman]

Word 2004 has the intrusive habit by default of being Big Brother,
forever looking over one's shoulder, underlining possible errors,
flagging places for suggestions, etc. All that means frequent
distracting eye candy or bizarre symbols that suddenly appear. I've
been able to turn off some of these, but I cannot figure out how to
turn them all off (wish there were a global setting!).

In particular, I'm still getting the Auto Correct and Paste Text drop
down menus that appears from nowhere, linked to a piece of text. I
don't need it, don't want it, and would like it to stop!

Any tips of how to stop this? I'm on a Mac, Office 2004 11.2, Tiger,
OS 10.4.3.

 

[stedman]

Oh, and I should add that one of the "infuriating" things about this,
is that those drop down menus block the text one is editing or reading!

 

[stedman]

That's a big help... and indeed solves half of my problem.

Now if I could only turn off the blue lines and the AutoCorrect
floating menu. It's too bad that there isn't a Show/Hide AC tips pref.

Thanks!