[Dawn Davies]

Hello all,

I hope I am in the correct forum, if not will you kindly advise.

I have just started using Word 2000 on my Windows 98 SE.
I opened text, which I had copied from an e-mail to my floppy and found that
every first word in every line was underlined in green, but without there
being any mistakes in respect of any of them. Why should this happen?

Dawn Davies

[Stefan Blom]

This would indicate grammar errors in the document. Is the language of
the text correct? Look at the status bar. What language displays
there? If you find that it is incorrect, the quick fix is to select
the whole document and then click Tools | Language | Set Language.
Choose the desired language and click OK. In the future, you may want
to choose Edit | Paste Special, and paste as "Unformatted Text,"
whenever pasting text from the web. This ensures that the language
(and other settings) at the insertion point is preserved.

Also note that if you don't need grammar check, you can turn it off:
On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the Spelling & Grammar tab.
Clear "Check grammar as you type" as well as "Check grammar with
spelling." Click OK.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Dawn Davies" wrote in message
...
Hello all,

I hope I am in the correct forum, if not will you kindly advise.

I have just started using Word 2000 on my Windows 98 SE.
I opened text, which I had copied from an e-mail to my floppy and
found that
every first word in every line was underlined in green, but without
there
being any mistakes in respect of any of them. Why should this
happen?

Dawn Davies

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Text pasted from an email will probably have a line break at the end of each
line (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm); I'm
wondering if this might generate a "grammatical error." Dawn, if you right
click on these errors, what does Word say the error is?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
This would indicate grammar errors in the document. Is the language of
the text correct? Look at the status bar. What language displays
there? If you find that it is incorrect, the quick fix is to select
the whole document and then click Tools | Language | Set Language.
Choose the desired language and click OK. In the future, you may want
to choose Edit | Paste Special, and paste as "Unformatted Text,"
whenever pasting text from the web. This ensures that the language
(and other settings) at the insertion point is preserved.

Also note that if you don't need grammar check, you can turn it off:
On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the Spelling & Grammar tab.
Clear "Check grammar as you type" as well as "Check grammar with
spelling." Click OK.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Dawn Davies" wrote in message
...
Hello all,

I hope I am in the correct forum, if not will you kindly advise.

I have just started using Word 2000 on my Windows 98 SE.
I opened text, which I had copied from an e-mail to my floppy and
found that
every first word in every line was underlined in green, but without
there
being any mistakes in respect of any of them. Why should this
happen?

Dawn Davies