word 2007 red underline text

[Jane Stew]

My mother-in law when typing in word 2007 sometimes hits the shift + enter
buttons at the same time. All of a sudden the texts turns red and has a line
through it. I can't remove it. Off to the left side there it looks like a [.
What is this called and how do I remove it? When I click left click it askes
to to remove inserction?

 

[Jay Freedman]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:09:01 -0700, Jane Stew <Jane

My mother-in law when typing in word 2007 sometimes hits the shift + enter
buttons at the same time. All of a sudden the texts turns red and has a line
through it. I can't remove it. Off to the left side there it looks like a [.
What is this called and how do I remove it? When I click left click it askes
to to remove inserction?

It isn't shift+Enter, it's Ctrl+Shift+E (probably because she's accidentally
pressing the Ctrl key while trying to type Shift+E). That turns on Track
Changes, which behaves exactly as you described.

Read http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html. In
particular, read the section "How to remove tracked changes". In Word 2007, the
equivalent buttons are in Tracking group and the Changes group on the Review
ribbon.

 

[Jane Stew]

Thank you so much it worked

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:09:01 -0700, Jane Stew <Jane

My mother-in law when typing in word 2007 sometimes hits the shift + enter
buttons at the same time. All of a sudden the texts turns red and has a line
through it. I can't remove it. Off to the left side there it looks like a [.
What is this called and how do I remove it? When I click left click it askes
to to remove inserction?

It isn't shift+Enter, it's Ctrl+Shift+E (probably because she's accidentally
pressing the Ctrl key while trying to type Shift+E). That turns on Track
Changes, which behaves exactly as you described.

Read http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html. In
particular, read the section "How to remove tracked changes". In Word 2007, the
equivalent buttons are in Tracking group and the Changes group on the Review
ribbon.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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