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Mystery Underline
"Dave" <djbahb[ at ]dcwis.com> 11/9/2008 3:04:16 PM
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


Re: Mystery Underline
"Opinicus" <gezgin[ at ]spamcop.net.which.is.not.invalid> 11/9/2008 5:59:15 PM
"Dave" <djbahb[ at ]dcwis.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
> 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?

It usually means Word thinks that a word that it doesn't recognize is a
misspelling.

Try this:

Tools > Options > Spelling & Grammar

[] Check spelling as you type

I think that box is checked as the default. Uncheck it and see if your red
lines disappear.

--
Bob
http://www.kanyak.com

Re: Mystery Underline
Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 11/9/2008 6:13:59 PM
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
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:04:16 -0600, "Dave" <djbahb[ at ]dcwis.com> wrote:

[Quoted Text]
>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
>
Re: Mystery Underline
"Dave" <djbahb[ at ]dcwis.com> 11/10/2008 2:02:09 PM
Thank you all -
Apparently Word felt the line "421 Maple Drive" contained a misspelled
word. Amazing.
Getting rid of 'Check spelling as you type' did the trick, however.

What's interesting to me - now the spell checker does not find any
misspelled words in that line.

Amazing.

Thx again

Dave



"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
> 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
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
> so all
> may benefit.
>
> 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
>>


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