How do I turn off automatic formatting in Microsoft Word?

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Occaisionally when I highlight one line and click to add a bullet to this line, every line in the document has bulletts added to it.
To get rid of theunwanted bulletts, I click 'undo' however this can be time consuming and frustrating.
This does not just happen to bullett points, sometimes it is the footer of a document, which adds lines to itself, whils I am formatting the body of the doucment. These lines can be manually removed, but again this is frustrating and time consuming.

Any ideas, your assistance would be apreciated?
Thank you,

i turned off automatic numbering and cant turn it back on even though automatic numbering is checked. i even restored factory settings but still won't list for me after i type 1. i have to type each

How do you do fractions in PageMaker7.0, for example 3/16?

I also have read everything there is and followed every instruction for turning of all automatic formatting and yet it still does happens and I absolutely hate it. It definitely interferes with my work - where I have to create documents with lots of different formats.

I, too, have all the AutoCorrect options deselected (turned off) and Word 2004 for Mac continues to make changes. In particular, I have deselected "Capitalize First Letter of Sentences" and Word continues to capitalize the first letter. Has anyone figured out how to work around this bug?

Hey guys!

I had the same problem with deselecting the Autocorrect options in Outlook -- actually I deselected ALL of them and nothing worked..

Turns out it's not an Outlook bug, really. It's because in Tools/Options/Mail Format, "Use Microsoft Word 2003 to edit email messages" is selected - the Autocorrect options are coming from Word itself!

: ) Hope this helps! It fixed my problem when I deselected that.

I forgot to mention -- you also should turn off "Use AutoCorrect when Word isn't the main editor" under Tools/Options/Spelling. And any other option you don't like. : )

I just want to turn ALL auto formatting off. With the exception of fractions and 1st, 2nd stufff.

This is TOTALLY FRUSTRATING!!!

Hi! Leo,
I can't find where to turn off the auto formatting which creates the live web link
each time I type an email address in MS Word?
I am unable to copy and paste a group of friends
into another page without transferring the live web link effect.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Rich

I work with MS Office Word 2003. My problem is that once I turn off all of the Autocorrect options, after every reboot of my computer (and sometimes even after hibernation) all of the options I had deselected revert to their original state, and Microsoft Word once again autoformats everything until I turn off all the options again! This is insane! I have to reset the autocorrect options - as well as all the other options (General, Edit, Save, Spelling, etc.) - at least once every day! Is there some way to permanently freeze the settings? Or is there at least some way to save a template of such settings? The only savable templates I am aware of deal with toolbars and formatting but not with "preferences" as such. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!,
Steve

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