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How to stop automatic date completion?
When I write "2007" and then push the button "Enter", Word 2007 adds
automatically month and day. How can I stop this behaviour? Someone has suggested to add "shift" when I type "enter". But why I have to be forced to remember that I must hold the button "shift", whenever I type "2007" and "Enter"? |
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How to stop automatic date completion?
Insert | AutoText, and then click AutoText. Clear the Show AutoComplete
suggestions check box. -- Rae Drysdale "Conte" wrote: When I write "2007" and then push the button "Enter", Word 2007 adds automatically month and day. How can I stop this behaviour? Someone has suggested to add "shift" when I type "enter". But why I have to be forced to remember that I must hold the button "shift", whenever I type "2007" and "Enter"? |
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How to stop automatic date completion?
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Office Button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options Uncheck "Show AutoCorrect Options" box Hope this helps? "Conte" wrote in message ... When I write "2007" and then push the button "Enter", Word 2007 adds automatically month and day. How can I stop this behaviour? Someone has suggested to add "shift" when I type "enter". But why I have to be forced to remember that I must hold the button "shift", whenever I type "2007" and "Enter"? |
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How to stop automatic date completion?
Rae Drysdale ha scritto:
Insert | AutoText, and then click AutoText. Clear the Show AutoComplete suggestions check box. Do you refer to Word 2007? |
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How to stop automatic date completion?
Summer ha scritto:
Try Office Button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options Uncheck "Show AutoCorrect Options" box Hope this helps? Unfortunately it doesn't work. It seems not to be an autocorrect option. It works whenever I type the four digits of the current year and then push "Enter". It seems that I can avoid it only by typing something else (Shift, Esc, space). But I wonder why microsoft creates programs more and more automatic, less and less flexible, leaving to the user less and less freedom, forcing the user to do what they want to do. |
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How to stop automatic date completion?
Here is some info from Herb Tyson on how to solve your "Autocomplete"
It is in this newsgroup but I've pasted it for you - excuse the format (start at the bottom): ================================================== ===== Reinstalling, alas, doesn't fix settings issue, because setup is "trained" to preserve existing settings. The other possibility is that date AutoComplete has been turned off--though, how, I can't imagine, unless you've been running rogue macros willy-nilly, which seems unlikely, or that your Data key in the registry is corrupted, which seems rather more likely. To turn AutoComplete for dates on (assuming it's turned off), you'd need to run a simple macro: Sub TurnOffAutoComplete() Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = True End Sub (See http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/2...-in-word-2007/ for details). If that doesn't do it, then try deleting or renaming the Data key, as described he http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm You're looking for this (close all running instances of winword.exe first): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data When you delete or rename it, Word will automatically create a new Data key the next time Word is started. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Lynn G" wrote in message ... Well it does work in safe mode, so I tried recreating normal.dotm and reinstalling but it still doesn't work - any other thoughts? -- Lynn G "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: AutoComplete of dates should still be working in Word 2007 (AutoComplete of AutoText entries, on the other hand, has been disabled). If it's not working in documents created in Word 2007, then it could just be a matter of Word being ornery. The only way to turn off date AutoComplete in Word 2007 is using a macro (http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/2...in-word-2007/), and I suppose a registry glitch could make Word 2007 think that it's turned off... except for the fact that it's working in documents created in earlier versions of Word. It's working for me in all documents. What happens if you start Word in safe mode (hold down Ctrl as Word is starting, and click Yes to starting in safe mode)? Does it work now? If so, then it might be a registry glitch or a problem with normal.dotm. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Lynn G" wrote in message ... Since installing Word 2007 I can no longer start typing the date and have it automatically inserted for me, which was a very useful feature in previous versions and by all accounts should be included in this version. However, this feature still works in documents created in Word 2003 or earlier versions? Is there a setting for this feature that I've missed ... it was always automatic before. -- Lynn G "Conte" wrote in message ... Rae Drysdale ha scritto: Insert | AutoText, and then click AutoText. Clear the Show AutoComplete suggestions check box. Do you refer to Word 2007? |
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How to stop automatic date completion?
Yes, a space. But I delete all AutoCorrect entries and use my own and I
don't have the date problem. "Conte" wrote in message ... Summer ha scritto: Try Office Button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options Uncheck "Show AutoCorrect Options" box Hope this helps? Unfortunately it doesn't work. It seems not to be an autocorrect option. It works whenever I type the four digits of the current year and then push "Enter". It seems that I can avoid it only by typing something else (Shift, Esc, space). But I wonder why microsoft creates programs more and more automatic, less and less flexible, leaving to the user less and less freedom, forcing the user to do what they want to do. |
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How to stop automatic date completion?
Sub TurnOffAutoComplete()
Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = True End Sub This has solved the problem. Thank you very much. |
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