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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / March 2004Spell check animation aggro
A small irritation: I've turned off spell checking as I type, but find the little animated scribble on the status bar still carries on, which I find incredibly distracting... So much so that I'm driven to writing this, instead of what I should be writing! I can't find any way of turning this off. Is it possible? If not could there be a little patch please which will turn it off??? So irritating that I had never noticed it, despite having used Word since version 6 - so thanks for pointing that out. It'll no doubt irritate me too now :( It appears there is no way to turn it off that I can find, though if you find it that annoying, you could turn off the status bar from tools > options > view.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > A small irritation: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I can't find any way of turning this off. Is it possible? If not > could there be a little patch please which will turn it off??? It disappears for me in Word 2003 if I disable both "Check spelling as you type" and "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > So irritating that I had never noticed it, despite having used Word since > version 6 - so thanks for pointing that out. It'll no doubt irritate me too [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > I can't find any way of turning this off. Is it possible? If not > > could there be a little patch please which will turn it off??? Doesn't work here :( Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > It disappears for me in Word 2003 if I disable both "Check spelling > as you type" and "Check grammar as you type." [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >>> I can't find any way of turning this off. Is it possible? If not >>> could there be a little patch please which will turn it off??? Hmm. Have you applied all the available updates? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Doesn't work here :( > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > >>> I can't find any way of turning this off. Is it possible? If not > >>> could there be a little patch please which will turn it off??? I am downloading the latest minor update now - but there is nothing listed that would affect this. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > Hmm. Have you applied all the available updates? > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >>>>> I can't find any way of turning this off. Is it possible? If not >>>>> could there be a little patch please which will turn it off??? Update installed - no change :( Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > I am downloading the latest minor update now - but there is nothing > listed that would affect this. [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >>>>>> I can't find any way of turning this off. Is it possible? If not >>>>>> could there be a little patch please which will turn it off??? G'day "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@DELETECAPSmvps.org>, Mate, I dont have the orig prob left to look at and there's nothing in the last few replies of import. What's broken mate? Have you: a) Ascertained your custom dictionaries aren't too big b) "Maggied" your document - cuttenpaste all bar last para mark to another document. Steve Hudson - Word Heretic Want a hyperlinked index? S/W R&D? See WordHeretic.com steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Graham Mayor reckoned: >Update installed - no change :( Nothing broken, just a minor idiosyncracy relating to the scribbling pad in the status bar that apparently cannot be switched off - though Suzanne has managed it. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > G'day "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@DELETECAPSmvps.org>, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >> Update installed - no change :( We have already established that my computer is charmed (actually this one and the one before it as well, in three successive versions of Word). Must be something in the Fairhope electric current. <g> Seriously, it is really bizarre that my version of Word always has bits that behave differently from the rest of the world's. In Word 2002, I figured it was because I hadn't applied the updates, but now I'm really at a loss for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Nothing broken, just a minor idiosyncracy relating to the scribbling pad in > the status bar that apparently cannot be switched off - though Suzanne has [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > >> Update installed - no change :( I just made a discovery. In one document, the animation carries on. But in another, it doesn't. I can't see any difference between the two documents, apart from content. Same templates, same preferences etc. There just doesn't seem to by any rhyme or reason to this! The document where the animation is switched off is a lot bigger than the one where it continues, but other than that... God knows...! > We have already established that my computer is charmed (actually this one > and the one before it as well, in three successive versions of Word). Must [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > > > > >> Update installed - no change :( Well, when I was checking it was in an empty document, but I just added some lorem ipsum text (in which *every* word is misspelled!), and it still works there. Oddly, though, I opened a 262-page document, with "Check spelling as you type" enabled (and working), and the status bar icon is missing, so something weird is certainly going on. If I explicitly run spelling and grammar (F7), then the icon reappears, but it disappears if I disable CSAYT. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I just made a discovery. > [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] > > > > > > > >> Update installed - no change :( |
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