Re: Wavy Blue Line
Suzanne S. Barnhill
in my document mean?" (third hit), which explains that "Word uses wavy blue
underlines to indicate possible instances of inconsistent formatting."
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"Andy Reyes" <Andy...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I know what wavy read and green lines mean, but what does a wavy blue line
> mean? I tried searching the Word help and none of the hits explained it.
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> Andy
Dawn Crosier, Word MVP
For instance, if you use "can not" in a sentence, you should see it with a
wavy blue line with a right click correction of "cannot".
You can turn it off, by clicking the Office button, selecting Word Options.
Select Proofing and clear the check mark from "Use contextual spelling".
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
version mostly has yet to be written. I believe we were led to hope,
however, that Help in that version would be designed in such a way that
service packs could add to it. In any case, the other answer you received
did mention that wavy blue lines in Word 2007 point out contextual spelling
errors rather than formatting inconsistencies.
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"Andy Reyes" <Andy...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> like you sugested I had tried searching on "wavy blue line" and the only
hil
> I goy that was even on the subject explained the red and green lines, but
not
> the blue ones. I tried searching on "wavy lines" and did not get anything
> that had to do with spelling or grammar. Most of the hits had to do with
> templates. I even tried searching on "What do the underlines in my
document
> mean" (the topic that you said you found the information on) and all I got
> was "Double underline the text" and the rest were templates. It looks like
> help on Word 2007 leaves a lot to be desired.
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> Andy
Jay Freedman
while there are some holes in coverage, they aren't really that bad.
The indexing is absolutely horrendous, though -- it's impossible to
find about half of the things I know are in there.
In this case, the only two topics that mention the blue wavy underline
are "Keep track of formatting while you type"
(http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HP012265141033&QueryID=PxBBdUSJV&respos=3&rt=2&ns=WINWORD&lcid=1033&pid=CH100970211033)
and "Check spelling and grammar"
(http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HP101179631033&QueryID=MxBBW3x7G&respos=1&rt=2&ns=WINWORD&lcid=1033&pid=CH101512471033).
Because the wording in the formatting article is "blue squiggly
underline", you can find that article by looking for the term
"squiggly" -- but not "wavy", which was the term used in Word 2003
help. The spelling article mentions blue wavy underlines in a heading
but doesn't say anything about them in the text. :-b
Word 2003 Help also had a topic titled "I see something unusual in my
document" (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HP030894821033.aspx)
that listed all the wavy underlines and other formatting marks, but
that topic doesn't appear to have been carried forward; maybe it's
there, but the indexing won't let me find it...
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Keepitreal
RTWG
spelling. Problem is they still show up when there is a formatting or style
difference. How do I get rid of that? It is extremely annoying.
One line in my resume has the blue wavy/squiggly lines under the entire
line. When I right click, I get the following options:
1. Replace direct formatting with with style List Paragraph
2. Ignore Once
3. Ignore Rule
I want to ignore not replace my formatting (which is consistent throughout
my doc). How do I turn this feature off permanently?
Rich
Bob Buckland ?:-) At Beautiful Downtown
One of the oddities of Word 2007 was MS choosing to use blue as the squiggle color for two different features (a) the new context
spelling and (b) an enhanced version of the Word 2003 introduced feature to mark formatting 'inconsistencies'
In Word 2007 that's under
Office Button=>Word Options=>Advanced=>Editing Options
[ ] Mark Formatting Inconsistencies
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<<"RTWG" <RT...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1FE24E81-131A-42CE...@microsoft.com...
I corrected and stopped the blue wavy/squiggly lines that refer to contextual
spelling. Problem is they still show up when there is a formatting or style
difference. How do I get rid of that? It is extremely annoying.
One line in my resume has the blue wavy/squiggly lines under the entire
line. When I right click, I get the following options:
1. Replace direct formatting with with style List Paragraph
2. Ignore Once
3. Ignore Rule
I want to ignore not replace my formatting (which is consistent throughout
my doc). How do I turn this feature off permanently?
Rich >>
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*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
in message news:eKXv2Ibz...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
grammatim
2003?
On Jun 13, 8:07 pm, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> One of the oddities of Word 2007 was MS choosing to use blue as the squiggle color for two different features (a) the new context
> spelling and (b) an enhanced version of the Word 2003 introduced feature to mark formatting 'inconsistencies'
>
> In Word 2007 that's under
> Office Button=>Word Options=>Advanced=>Editing Options
> [ ] Mark Formatting Inconsistencies
>
> =============
> <<"RTWG" <R...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:1FE24E81-131A-42CE...@microsoft.com...
Suzanne S. Barnhill
if you have "Keep track of formatting" enabled, in which case you're also
seeing all those pseudo-styles such as Normal + Bold, Normal + 14 pt, etc.
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"grammatim" <gram...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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grammatim
has no one told me this before????
Bless you!
On Jun 14, 8:40 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnh...@mvps.org> wrote:
> Tools | Options | Edit: Mark formatting inconsistencies. It's available only
> if you have "Keep track of formatting" enabled, in which case you're also
> seeing all those pseudo-styles such as Normal + Bold, Normal + 14 pt, etc.
>
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> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
>
> "grammatim" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote in message
> > my doc). How do I turn this feature off permanently?-
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"grammatim" <gram...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Bod
looking in Tools, options, proofing. Oh please tell me I can turn off those
blue lines - I can't see any punctuation.
Yves Dhondt
found in Word 2007 under "Office button", "Word Options", "Advanced".
Yves
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Bod
"Yves Dhondt" wrote:
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