No, that doesn't do it. First of all, the prefs setting only controls the
Paste Options clipboard (I just checked), and I've never had a problem with
that one persisting when I didn't want it to, and that isn't the one the OP
is complaining about, I don't think.

But say I type "hello--what about me?" And the -- turns into an em dash and
I can go back, hover over the blue line under the em dash and get a smart
button (the lightning bolt icon) that lets me undo that autocorrect or turn
it off entirely. I do not want those to vanish, they are occasionally
useful, but [question 1] it would be good to have a way to turn them off.

[question 2] When I move the mouse away from the -- the smart button goes
away. Sometimes, however, it gets stuck on, and won't go away even when I
scroll up and down to refresh the screen. Does anyone else see that, and is
there anything to do done about it? I'm pretty sure this is what the OP is
complaining about, as the -- smart button (I think) is the same as the tab
smart button, more or less.

To the OP (AES): if you are seeing this smart button persist every single
time, and only on the tab setting, but not for other autocorrections, that
would be good to know.


On 6/24/05 4:19 AM, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote:

OK: The thing you are seeing is a "Smart Tag".

In Mac Word, it's in PreferencesEditCut and Paste OptionsShow Paste
Options Buttons

In WinWord it's in ToolsOptionsEditCut and Paste OptionsShow Paste
Options Buttons

Cheers

On 23/6/05 1:53 AM, in article ,
"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

I'm cross-posting to the MacWord group because I just realized I've been
putting up with this annoyance as well. The box is only supposed to appear
when you hover over that location, but sometimes they do stick around.

See here for Google/Entourage gateway to Mac-specific newsgroups, by the
way.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups


On 6/22/05 7:50 AM, "AES" wrote:

I am using Word 2004 for Macs.
Okay you know when every I indent twice this little, tiny, icon box with a
lightening bolt inside pops onto the screen giving me these options to
change
back to tab, to stop setting indents on tabs and backspaces, and to go to
the
autocorrect table. Now I do not actaully want to do any of these things, I
have tried ll of them, changing random things in autoformat, etc. but what I
really really really want is to be able to see the text underneatth the box
and keep working! And no the box does not move. Does anyone know how to turn
this thing off?
AES