autotext

This is not something I set up and I need to know how to turn it off!
BTW: I haven't turned on autotext either, so I'm always surprised by
it... I type something with a g/ and Greetings, Bill (Gates?)
follows. Is this what they call an Easter Egg?

How do I stop that? I can work around it, but I want to stop it dead
in its tracks.

TIA
sf

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DeanH
Fri Mar 14 03:41:01 PDT 2008

Check under Insert, AutoText, Autotext, AutoText and AutoCorrect tabs for
these options.
Hope this helps
DeanH

"sf" wrote:

>
> This is not something I set up and I need to know how to turn it off!
> BTW: I haven't turned on autotext either, so I'm always surprised by
> it... I type something with a g/ and Greetings, Bill (Gates?)
> follows. Is this what they call an Easter Egg?
>
> How do I stop that? I can work around it, but I want to stop it dead
> in its tracks.
>
> TIA
> sf
>
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> See return address to reply by email
> remove the smile first
>

Terry
Fri Mar 14 03:41:27 PDT 2008

Sounds like a rogue AutoCorrect entry. Check in the AutoCorrect list for g/.

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"sf" wrote in message news:9m2kt39hjnj3td0vp076ln0tedt3le4ajq@4ax.com...
>
> This is not something I set up and I need to know how to turn it off!
> BTW: I haven't turned on autotext either, so I'm always surprised by
> it... I type something with a g/ and Greetings, Bill (Gates?)
> follows. Is this what they call an Easter Egg?
>
> How do I stop that? I can work around it, but I want to stop it dead
> in its tracks.
>
> TIA
> sf
>
> --
> See return address to reply by email
> remove the smile first

sf
Sat Mar 15 08:03:25 PDT 2008

Thanks, I looked in both autocorrect and autotext but it's not there.
Any other ideas?

:)
``````````

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:41:27 -0000, "Terry Farrell"
<terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote:

>Sounds like a rogue AutoCorrect entry. Check in the AutoCorrect list for g/.
>
>--
>Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
>
>"sf" wrote in message news:9m2kt39hjnj3td0vp076ln0tedt3le4ajq@4ax.com...
>>
>> This is not something I set up and I need to know how to turn it off!
>> BTW: I haven't turned on autotext either, so I'm always surprised by
>> it... I type something with a g/ and Greetings, Bill (Gates?)
>> follows. Is this what they call an Easter Egg?
>>
>> How do I stop that? I can work around it, but I want to stop it dead
>> in its tracks.


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Terry
Sat Mar 15 09:54:50 PDT 2008

Do you have a programmable keyboard? Perhaps that has somehow become set
with an unwanted entry?

It certainly isn't an Easter Egg. Does this still happen if you start in
Safe Mode? From Start, Run, type in

winword /a

and press enter. Test it now. If it stops, then it pretty much points to an
incompatible add-in. Let us know the result please.

Terry

"sf" wrote in message news:9tont3pb560a5ln25q7lm7vcdegtipjuia@4ax.com...
> Thanks, I looked in both autocorrect and autotext but it's not there.
> Any other ideas?
>
> :)
> ``````````
>
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:41:27 -0000, "Terry Farrell"
> <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>Sounds like a rogue AutoCorrect entry. Check in the AutoCorrect list for
>>g/.
>>
>>--
>>Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
>>
>>"sf" wrote in message news:9m2kt39hjnj3td0vp076ln0tedt3le4ajq@4ax.com...
>>>
>>> This is not something I set up and I need to know how to turn it off!
>>> BTW: I haven't turned on autotext either, so I'm always surprised by
>>> it... I type something with a g/ and Greetings, Bill (Gates?)
>>> follows. Is this what they call an Easter Egg?
>>>
>>> How do I stop that? I can work around it, but I want to stop it dead
>>> in its tracks.
>
>
> --
> See return address to reply by email
> remove the smile first