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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2005Any way to turn off the drop down menus that appear after pasting...??
Word 2004 has the intrusive habit by default of being Big Brother, forever looking over one's shoulder, underlining possible errors, flagging places for suggestions, etc. All that means frequent distracting eye candy or bizarre symbols that suddenly appear. I've been able to turn off some of these, but I cannot figure out how to turn them all off (wish there were a global setting!). In particular, I'm still getting the Auto Correct and Paste Text drop down menus that appears from nowhere, linked to a piece of text. I don't need it, don't want it, and would like it to stop! Any tips of how to stop this? I'm on a Mac, Office 2004 11.2, Tiger, OS 10.4.3. Oh, and I should add that one of the "infuriating" things about this, is that those drop down menus block the text one is editing or reading! Word | Preferences | Edit, there is a checkbox to "show Paste Options buttons". That should help. It turns on/off the Paste Options clipboard. I don't think there is a way to prevent the AutoCorrect smart clipboard from coming up when you hover over the blue line (other than not hovering), and there is no way to turn off the blue line appearing. I'd say, off the top of my head, that those things are useful about 2-3x/week, and get in my way about 1x/month. I find the Paste Options one more useful than the other--as I frequently decide I need to Paste Matching Format after hitting cmd-V, but rarely need to undo my AutoCorrects. But the Paste Options one is also the one that gets in the way more often. A mouse click or typing elsewhere ought to force it away--I think it's part of the general screen refresh issues that sometimes it sticks around. Was there anything else you want to turn off and can't find? > Word 2004 has the intrusive habit by default of being Big Brother, > forever looking over one's shoulder, underlining possible errors, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Any tips of how to stop this? I'm on a Mac, Office 2004 11.2, Tiger, > OS 10.4.3.  SignatureDaiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: <http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/> What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ That's a big help... and indeed solves half of my problem. Now if I could only turn off the blue lines and the AutoCorrect floating menu. It's too bad that there isn't a Show/Hide AC tips pref. Thanks! I use AutoCorrect a lot <= [in fact, this "AutoCorrect" here is one of them I just type "autocorrect"] and I sometimes despair, in a sea of liquid blue lines, of the inability to get to them. So (not *that* often, I admit) I have been known to save, close the document <= [oops! there's another] and re-open it. So my figures, Daiya, may be 200-300 a day, and get in my way 50 per day. :-\ I don't need the Paste Options I use a keyboard shortcut that pastes in text with only the formatting of the paragraph into which it's pasted (see Appendix E: Making buttons for formatting shortcuts (page 168) of [oops! next 3 lines are another one] => some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your Will", which are available as a free download from the Word MVPs' website (http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm). I hope this helps, [?] Stedman. Cheers, Clive Huggan Canberra, Australia (My time zone is at least 7 hours different from the US and Europe, so my follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed) ============================================================ * A SUGGESTION -- WAIT FOR CONSIDERED ADVICE: If you post a question, keep re-visiting the newsgroup for several days after the first response comes in. Sometimes it takes a few responses before the best or complete solution is proposed; sometimes you'll be asked for further information so that a better answer can be provided. Good tips about getting the best out of posting are at http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm (if you use Safari you may see a blank page and have to hit the circular arrow icon -- "Reload the current page" -- a few times). * AVOID SPAM: To avoid spam directed at contributors of newsgroups, you can set up a "send-only" dummy e-mail account. Full guidelines are at http://www.entourage.mvps.org/tips/tip019.html ============================================================ On 14/11/05 4:52 AM, in article BF9CBD55.5164C%daiyaNOSPAM@mvps.org.INVALID, > Word | Preferences | Edit, there is a checkbox to "show Paste Options > buttons". That should help. It turns on/off the Paste Options clipboard. [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> Any tips of how to stop this? I'm on a Mac, Office 2004 11.2, Tiger, >> OS 10.4.3. Yea, everyone's figures will be different. I think I just found that typing a space/letter would eliminate the stuck clipboard icon when scroll up/scroll down and mouse-click wouldn't. Maybe. > I use AutoCorrect a lot <= [in fact, this "AutoCorrect" here is one of them > I just type "autocorrect"] and I sometimes despair, in a sea of liquid [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] >>> Any tips of how to stop this? I'm on a Mac, Office 2004 11.2, Tiger, >>> OS 10.4.3. |
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