How do I turn off auto-correct date formating

[KdF Lad]

Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter,
WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format.

How can I stop this from happening?

 

[Andrea Jones]

Click on Insert -> AutoText -> AutoText, a window will appear and you should
be in the AutoText section of it. Remove the tick from the box beside 'Show
AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'.

Andrea Jones
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[catcher055]

I too want to turn off this annoying feature. However when I follow the tip
below there is no box marked 'Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'.
Just one that says "Show Auto-complete Suggestions." If I uncheck that will
it also remove other auto-complete functions that I want to keep?

I just want it for the date not to be filled in whenever I type 2005.

Thanks

 

[Tony Jollans]

The wording on the checkbox has changed but the fiunctionality remains the
same.

I'm afraid it's all or nothing - either you turn all autocomplete
suggestions off or you have them all on, and the date completion is all
built-in and inflexible (and different in different versions)

 

[Graham Mayor]

You cannot turn the date autotext off without turning off all the others
too. The simplest solution is to press space after 2005.

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[Judy]

Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter,
WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format.

How can I stop this from happening?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Change your regional date settings in the control panels.
Press the spacebar after your date before you press enter.

Or... novel concept! Put a Create Date field in your letterhead template so
that the date will be there for you when you start a letter.

See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

Take a look at: How to set up letterhead or some other document where you
want one header on the first page and a different header on other pages.
http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm This gives step-by-step
instructions. (It also has the following links)

Some other pages to look at:

Letterhead Tips and Instructions
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial

Template Basics
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm

How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm

Word "Forms"
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms and

Word for Word Perfect Users
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm if you are coming from a WP
environment (or even if you are not).

Hope this helps; probably more than you wanted to know.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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