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The Help topics that are present in Word 2007 are fairly good, and
while there are some holes in coverage, they aren't really that bad.
The indexing is absolutely horrendous, though -- it's impossible to
find about half of the things I know are in there.

In this case, the only two topics that mention the blue wavy underline
are "Keep track of formatting while you type"
(http://office.microsoft.com/client/h...1 00970211033)
and "Check spelling and grammar"
(http://office.microsoft.com/client/h... 01512471033).
Because the wording in the formatting article is "blue squiggly
underline", you can find that article by looking for the term
"squiggly" -- but not "wavy", which was the term used in Word 2003
help. The spelling article mentions blue wavy underlines in a heading
but doesn't say anything about them in the text. :-b

Word 2003 Help also had a topic titled "I see something unusual in my
document" (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...894821033.aspx)
that listed all the wavy underlines and other formatting marks, but
that topic doesn't appear to have been carried forward; maybe it's
there, but the indexing won't let me find it...

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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:20:21 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

You did not say that you were using Word 2007. I gather that Help in that
version mostly has yet to be written. I believe we were led to hope,
however, that Help in that version would be designed in such a way that
service packs could add to it. In any case, the other answer you received
did mention that wavy blue lines in Word 2007 point out contextual spelling
errors rather than formatting inconsistencies.

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"Andy Reyes" wrote in message
...
like you sugested I had tried searching on "wavy blue line" and the only

hil
I goy that was even on the subject explained the red and green lines, but

not
the blue ones. I tried searching on "wavy lines" and did not get anything
that had to do with spelling or grammar. Most of the hits had to do with
templates. I even tried searching on "What do the underlines in my

document
mean" (the topic that you said you found the information on) and all I got
was "Double underline the text" and the rest were templates. It looks like
help on Word 2007 leaves a lot to be desired.
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Andy

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Did you search for "wavy lines"? See the Help topic "What do the

underlines
in my document mean?" (third hit), which explains that "Word uses wavy

blue
underlines to indicate possible instances of inconsistent formatting."

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"Andy Reyes" wrote in message
...
I know what wavy read and green lines mean, but what does a wavy blue

line
mean? I tried searching the Word help and none of the hits explained

it.
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Andy