Messy green lines

[matchstickman]

Hi there, my name is Will and I am new to the forum.



I have a question regarding the green wave lines which appear under the text when saving documents. The question is...how do you get rid of them?

[Stefan Blom]

I believe you are describing what happens when grammar check detects (possible) errors. If you right-click an underlined word, what suggestion is given?

You should also verify that the correct language has been specified for text. See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm.

[matchstickman]

No suggestion, its the format of the document that's causing the errors, not grammar.

[Stefan Blom]

I got the impression that suggestions are always given, no matter which type of error is being flagged. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...584.aspx?CTT=1 (Office Hours: The next generation of the spell checker). But my native language doesn't support the contextual spelling & grammar feature, so I have no practical experience with this.

In Office button | Word Options | Proofing, you can choose not to check grammar as you type; see if turning off the option for the contextual spelling makes a difference.

[matchstickman]

OMG. I'll just save the files concerned as pdf files.....

[Stefan Blom]

OK, saving as PDF will certainly be an effecient workaround. But did you try the options I mentioned in my previous reply?

[matchstickman]

Thank you for that last input. Unfortunately the said files are designed to be opened on anonymous computers, so that method is not an option. Thanks anyway though.

[Stefan Blom]

OK, it's certainly more convenient to distribute the document as a PDF.

However, if (at some point) you want to distribute a Word document, you can turn off spellchecking for the entire document by selecting the content (Ctrl+A) and then choosing "Do not check spelling or grammar" in the Review tab | Set Language dialog box. (It's even more practical to set this option for the styles you are using.)