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How do I turn off auto-correct date formating
Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter,
WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format. How can I stop this from happening? |
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Click on Insert - AutoText - AutoText, a window will appear and you should
be in the AutoText section of it. Remove the tick from the box beside 'Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'. Andrea Jones http://www.allaboutoffice.co.uk http://www.stratatraining.co.uk http://www.allaboutclait.com "KdF Lad" wrote: Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter, WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format. How can I stop this from happening? |
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I too want to turn off this annoying feature. However when I follow the tip
below there is no box marked 'Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'. Just one that says "Show Auto-complete Suggestions." If I uncheck that will it also remove other auto-complete functions that I want to keep? I just want it for the date not to be filled in whenever I type 2005. Thanks :-) "Andrea Jones" wrote: Click on Insert - AutoText - AutoText, a window will appear and you should be in the AutoText section of it. Remove the tick from the box beside 'Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'. Andrea Jones http://www.allaboutoffice.co.uk http://www.stratatraining.co.uk http://www.allaboutclait.com "KdF Lad" wrote: Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter, WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format. How can I stop this from happening? |
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The wording on the checkbox has changed but the fiunctionality remains the
same. I'm afraid it's all or nothing - either you turn all autocomplete suggestions off or you have them all on, and the date completion is all built-in and inflexible (and different in different versions) -- Enjoy, Tony "catcher055" wrote in message ... I too want to turn off this annoying feature. However when I follow the tip below there is no box marked 'Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'. Just one that says "Show Auto-complete Suggestions." If I uncheck that will it also remove other auto-complete functions that I want to keep? I just want it for the date not to be filled in whenever I type 2005. Thanks :-) "Andrea Jones" wrote: Click on Insert - AutoText - AutoText, a window will appear and you should be in the AutoText section of it. Remove the tick from the box beside 'Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'. Andrea Jones http://www.allaboutoffice.co.uk http://www.stratatraining.co.uk http://www.allaboutclait.com "KdF Lad" wrote: Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter, WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format. How can I stop this from happening? |
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You cannot turn the date autotext off without turning off all the others
too. The simplest solution is to press space after 2005. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org catcher055 wrote: I too want to turn off this annoying feature. However when I follow the tip below there is no box marked 'Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'. Just one that says "Show Auto-complete Suggestions." If I uncheck that will it also remove other auto-complete functions that I want to keep? I just want it for the date not to be filled in whenever I type 2005. Thanks :-) "Andrea Jones" wrote: Click on Insert - AutoText - AutoText, a window will appear and you should be in the AutoText section of it. Remove the tick from the box beside 'Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and dates'. Andrea Jones http://www.allaboutoffice.co.uk http://www.stratatraining.co.uk http://www.allaboutclait.com "KdF Lad" wrote: Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter, WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format. How can I stop this from happening? |
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How do I turn off auto-correct date formating
"KdF Lad" wrote: Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter, WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format. How can I stop this from happening? |
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How do I turn off auto-correct date formating
Change your regional date settings in the control panels.
Press the spacebar after your date before you press enter. Or... novel concept! Put a Create Date field in your letterhead template so that the date will be there for you when you start a letter. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. Take a look at: How to set up letterhead or some other document where you want one header on the first page and a different header on other pages. http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm This gives step-by-step instructions. (It also has the following links) Some other pages to look at: Letterhead Tips and Instructions http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial http://addbalance.com/word/download....StylesTutorial Template Basics http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm Word "Forms" http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordw...rces.htm#Forms and Word for Word Perfect Users http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm if you are coming from a WP environment (or even if you are not). Hope this helps; probably more than you wanted to know. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Judy" wrote in message ... "KdF Lad" wrote: Every time I type in a date in a letter (eg "27th July 2005") and hit enter, WORD auto corrects it and changes the date to an abbreviated date format. How can I stop this from happening? |
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