> You have "Smart Tags" turned on. There are several kinds of Smart Tags,
> including addresses, stock ticker symbols, measurements, and others. When
> you
> hover the mouse over a recognized piece of text, you'll see a button with
> an "i"
> in a circle; moving the mouse to that button and clicking gives you a menu
> of
> actions you can launch.
>
> If you don't want Smart Tags, go to Tools > AutoCorrect Options > Smart
> Tags and
> uncheck the box for "Label text with smart tags".
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
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> On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:04:16 -0600, "Dave" <djbahb[ at ]dcwis.com> wrote:
>
>>On a reinstall of Office/Word 2003, I am once again back in the land of
>>all
>>kinds of cute underlines. I understand how to turn them off, but before I
>>do I like to know what it is I am turning off.
>>
>>The mystery underline is straight and dotted red. It appeared under the
>>street address of a letter heading. A delete and retype of the address
>>line
>>brought it back again. I dutifully went to the MS/Office 2003/Word site
>>and
>>got a listing of all the underlines. Well - actually not all of them,
>>because the one I wanted was not there.
>>
>>BTW, the Track Change feature is off.
>>
>>So the question remains, what does a red dotted underline mean?
>>
>>Thx
>>
>>Dave
>>Win XP SP2 - Office 2003
>>