Making Annoying Name Pop-Ups Vanish

[MC]

PowerBook G4
Sys 10.5.2
Office 2008

This has been happening since Word 2004.

When I type certain names into a Word document a little window opens
with a full name. I'm assuming this is something Word finds in my
Entourage contacts. (I use Entourage for mail).

Example from real life: I typed Josh, and the little window popped up
with Josh Cowan -- which was not the right Josh, and I didn't want it.

In fact I want to kill this altogether but so far haven't found the
way... it must bea simple tweak... or I hope it is. Can someone tell me?

TIA

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

An actual *window*, or does a little yellow pop-up (similar to the
screen tips that tell you what an icon is for) describe it better?

Anyhow, Tools | AutoCorrect | AutoText. The yellow pop-ups say "You
have just typed the first four letters of an AutoText. Do you want to
hit enter to insert that AutoText?" You can either turn off the yellow
pop-ups entirely (AutoComplete Tips), or just check the box to "exclude
contacts".

 

[MC]

An actual *window*, or does a little yellow pop-up (similar to the
screen tips that tell you what an icon is for) describe it better?

Little yellow pop-up.

Anyhow, Tools | AutoCorrect | AutoText. The yellow pop-ups say "You
have just typed the first four letters of an AutoText. Do you want to
hit enter to insert that AutoText?" You can either turn off the yellow
pop-ups entirely (AutoComplete Tips), or just check the box to "exclude
contacts".

THANK YOU!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

THANK YOU!

You are welcome.

Incidentally, if you let AutoText insert the name, it is a Smart Tag,
which is a sort of field, and then you can right-click and do things
like "include address and phone number." Which I'm sure is *really*
helpful to a lot of people, but I personally have never used.

Every so often I get emailed copies of student papers that show
{6982380} instead of their name, because they used this feature and then
the field breaks when they send it to another computer.