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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / March 2008autotext
This is not something I set up and I need to know how to turn it off! BTW: I haven't turned on autotext either, so I'm always surprised by it... I type something with a g/ and Greetings, Bill (Gates?) follows. Is this what they call an Easter Egg? How do I stop that? I can work around it, but I want to stop it dead in its tracks. TIA sf  SignatureSee return address to reply by email remove the smile first Check under Insert, AutoText, Autotext, AutoText and AutoCorrect tabs for these options. Hope this helps DeanH > This is not something I set up and I need to know how to turn it off! > BTW: I haven't turned on autotext either, so I'm always surprised by [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > TIA > sf Sounds like a rogue AutoCorrect entry. Check in the AutoCorrect list for g/. SignatureTerry Farrell - MSWord MVP > This is not something I set up and I need to know how to turn it off! > BTW: I haven't turned on autotext either, so I'm always surprised by [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > TIA > sf Thanks, I looked in both autocorrect and autotext but it's not there. Any other ideas? :) `````````` >Sounds like a rogue AutoCorrect entry. Check in the AutoCorrect list for g/. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> How do I stop that? I can work around it, but I want to stop it dead >> in its tracks. SignatureSee return address to reply by email remove the smile first Do you have a programmable keyboard? Perhaps that has somehow become set with an unwanted entry? It certainly isn't an Easter Egg. Does this still happen if you start in Safe Mode? From Start, Run, type in winword /a and press enter. Test it now. If it stops, then it pretty much points to an incompatible add-in. Let us know the result please. Terry > Thanks, I looked in both autocorrect and autotext but it's not there. > Any other ideas? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >>> How do I stop that? I can work around it, but I want to stop it dead >>> in its tracks. |
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