Tools Options Spelling & Grammar Remove the ticks in Ckeck Spelling and Check Grammar ! Verify also in Tools AutoCorrect Gates, Scott wrote in message ... > * * * * * PREPARE FOR RANT * * * * * > > Would someone please tell me how to make WORD 97 NOT mung up >what I type? > > If Word interprets what I type as a Hyperlink, it converts >it to one and makes it LIVE. Which means attempting to correct anything on >that hyperlinked non-hyperlink attempts to go to that NON-HYPERLINK starting >up OUTLOOK or INTERNET EXPLODER. > > I sometimes have call to use some of the features that WORD >has that Qedit doesn't to edit COBOL and JCL. But the 'FEATURE CREATURE' >has made it nearly impossible to actually save time doing this. It didn't >do it in Word 6.0. but now WORD 97 insists on doing some of my typing for >me, like the hyperlinks or *correcting* data names that are close to looking >like real words. This is not a GOOD thing. > > HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP?????!!!!!! > > * * * * * THIS RANT IS CONCLUDED * * * * * * > > Scott "NO-RELATION!" Gates >