[ClaudioVillegas]

Word 2007 equation editor introduced a new fast way to enter subscripted
text: you type an underscore (low line, this character: _ ), type the text to
be subscripted and press space.

This is causing major havoc when working with equations whose variable names
contain underscores. I dont have the option to change the variable names. How
do i supress this form of auto-formatting?

A really silly workaround is to use a different character from the ASCII
table which looks like an underscore (the character i chose can be found on
the word symbol table, Symbol font, code 95). It solves the problem since its
a different character, therefore it wont trigger the autoformat.

Unfortunately, i already have a large number of equations carefully written
with underscore (if space is not pressed, the autoformat wont happen). I
thought of using the "find/replace" dialog to change all underscores to this
ASCII character, but since its an exotic character, it wont work with the
find/replace dialog.

Thx for the time and the imput