how to turn off AutoCorrect smart button?

[uwsrjk]

Help! The AutoCorrect smart button is SO annoying. Does anyone know how
to turn it off? It hides text and I don't want to see it again. Ever.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Help! The AutoCorrect smart button is SO annoying. Does anyone know how
to turn it off? It hides text and I don't want to see it again. Ever.

Thanks. Thanks a bunch!
I put off getting Word 2004 for ages, largely because of that
misfeature. I'd just about gotten used to it and you had to come along
and pick at the scab.

I can't remember how I did it, or if it was standard, but round here,
all I get is a twee little blue underscore animation whenever Word
smugly changes "teh" to "the" and similar. As soon as it has finished,
it leaves and there is no more sign of it unless I sidle the mouse or
the insertion point up to the correction. Then all I get is the final
frame of smugness-goes-to-Hollywood -- a blue underscore with a tiny
disclosure triangle. If I'm foolish enough to approach the triangle,
*then* I get Concorde at Gonesse.

I'm pretty sure that's the minimum exposure you can get to the plane
crash animation without turning autocorrect off altogether. If you get
more than that, ask again, and I'll carefully check all the settings I
might have made to tame it.

A couple of other points to mitigate the autocorrect affliction.
1. Keep your hands off the mouse.
2. Turn off spell-check as you ytpe. If you never make typos... That
way, all you get are the corrects in the autocorrect table in Tools »
autocorrect...
3. Type with your eyes on the keyboard, or on the copy. You don't want
to look competent or you'll never be promoted because you are too
valuable where you are.

Seriously, autocorrect is useful for things other than autocorrect. I
keep all my favourite fractions and other special signs as autocorrect
entries. e.g. extend the ideas you can already see in there like (tm)
for , to (p) for ' for those days one needs a really truly prime and
not a curly close quote.

I always wait till the doc is finished before letting the spell checker
anywhere near it.

 

[little_creature]

Try this macro:

Private Sub autocorrect()
'
' autocorrect Makro
' Makro zaznamen_no 18.10.2006
'
With autocorrect
..DisplayAutoCorrectOptions = False
End With
End Sub

Do you know how to perate wit macros? If nit post back We will give you more
info.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Next time it appears, click the disclosure triangle to the right of it.
There are options in there to turn of specific corrections or to turn all of
them off.

However, I suggest you think carefully before turning all of them off,
because there are some you can turn off (in tables) for which they forgot to
provide a way to turn them back ON

By and large, I got used to it. However, you may wish to turn off "Show
paste options buttons" in Preferences>Edit... That one drives me silly. I
actually use a macro that forces a paste in plain (unformatted) text in all
cases

Cheers

Help! The AutoCorrect smart button is SO annoying. Does anyone know how
to turn it off? It hides text and I don't want to see it again. Ever.

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Clive Huggan]

And I mumble your name in quiet thanks several times a day for it, Mr McGhie
-- one of the biggest time-savers in existence. ;-)

clive
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