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get rid of auto-formatting in Word
i spend hours making a page exactly as it has to be. When I try to print or
save the document - Word re-formats it. Is there any way of killing this feature? I am getting to where all I can use is WordPerfect because of this. The University and Journals require specific formatting for documents and Word always decides to change what I have spent hours alligning exactly how I need it. All I (and everyone I have talked to about this problem) want is an Off switch for this useless feature. |
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Start with http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm, but also
see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "prbeck" wrote in message news i spend hours making a page exactly as it has to be. When I try to print or save the document - Word re-formats it. Is there any way of killing this feature? I am getting to where all I can use is WordPerfect because of this. The University and Journals require specific formatting for documents and Word always decides to change what I have spent hours alligning exactly how I need it. All I (and everyone I have talked to about this problem) want is an Off switch for this useless feature. |
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Thank you. I will try the macro. I hope it works. I still want Microsoft to
put an Off switch in the program. It must cost this University over a million dollars a year for people having to force Word to do things the way they have to be. Auto-formatting is a stupid feature unless you only work on a single type document. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Start with http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm, but also see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "prbeck" wrote in message news i spend hours making a page exactly as it has to be. When I try to print or save the document - Word re-formats it. Is there any way of killing this feature? I am getting to where all I can use is WordPerfect because of this. The University and Journals require specific formatting for documents and Word always decides to change what I have spent hours alligning exactly how I need it. All I (and everyone I have talked to about this problem) want is an Off switch for this useless feature. |
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What macro?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "prbeck" wrote in message ... Thank you. I will try the macro. I hope it works. I still want Microsoft to put an Off switch in the program. It must cost this University over a million dollars a year for people having to force Word to do things the way they have to be. Auto-formatting is a stupid feature unless you only work on a single type document. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Start with http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm, but also see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "prbeck" wrote in message news i spend hours making a page exactly as it has to be. When I try to or save the document - Word re-formats it. Is there any way of killing this feature? I am getting to where all I can use is WordPerfect because of this. The University and Journals require specific formatting for documents and Word always decides to change what I have spent hours alligning exactly how I need it. All I (and everyone I have talked to about this problem) want is an Off switch for this useless feature. |
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there's code for a macro on that page that switches off all the
autoformat-as-you-type options ... brilliant. I've sent it to everyone I work with. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What macro? |
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