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When I transfer Word document, a blue line appears under all the text. What causes this?

Mal

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If you're seeing a blue underline after you change your text formatting then the option to mark formatting inconsistencies enabled. It’s like spell check for styles. If you have formatting in your document that matches a style then Word will flag it. To turn this option off:

Click the Office Button
Click Word Options (below your Recently Used File List)
On the Advanced tab, deselect the option named Mark Formatting Inconsistencies

~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP

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Hi again Mal,

As promised, here are the instructions to locate, backup and delete your Word Data registry key:

Exit all Office programs

2. Click on Start

Type regedit in the Search box

4. Press Enter

This will take you to the Registry Editor window and you will need to locate the Data folder for Word 2007

1. From the Registry Editor window click on each of these in turn to get to the correct Data file:

*** Please be sure to follow this path exactly as described ***

You may need to double click to open each folder in order to get at the next folder in the list:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER (this should be at the top of the list in the Registry Editor window)

Software

Microsoft

Office

12.0

Word

Data

When you get as far as the Data folder:

2. Click on the File menu

3. Click on Export

Name the file Wddata.reg

5. Save the file to your Desktop.

Then:

6. Click on the Edit menu

7. Click on Delete

8. Click on Yes at the prompt

9. Exit the Registry Editor

Start Word (a new Data key will be built automatically).

If the problem has gone away then it was due to a damaged Word Data registry key. Some of your settings may have been wiped out and you may need to reset them.

Let me know how you get on?

All the best,

Sharon

Sharon Roffey

Queensland, Australia

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Good morning Mal,

(If that applies where you are ... which time zone are you in by the way?)

If the Microsoft Works icon appears in the top left corner then it looks a though your documents are still associated with Works. I imagine this doesn't change with an uninstall so now we need to do a manual association so that Word recognizes them.

Right now the most important ones for you are the following:

.doc

.dochtml

.docm

.docx

.docxml

.dot

.dothtml

.dotm

.dotx

These are the files that you want Word to recognize.

So, this is what you now need to do:

1. Click on each one of the above in turn

2. Click on the Change program button

3. Click on the Microsoft Office Word icon under Recommended programs

Click on OK

So, hope that does it for you.

Let me know how you get on.

BTW. Just as a "heads up", do you use other Office application e.g. Excel or PowerPoint? If so, at some point later on you may need to do some similar manual associations. The files will be easy to identify by locating Microsoft Works in the list and changing to Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, as applicable.

Best,

Sharon

Sharon Roffey

Queensland, Australia

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2010-04-19T20:57:51+00:00

Upon re-reading the this thread, each time you deleted the Word Data key it should set various Word options back to the factory defaults. One of the options stored in the Data key is the "Mark formatting inconsistencies" option and it’s not selected by default. If after de-selecting the option you find it becomes selected again then the likely cause is an add-in.

If you’re not familiar with add-ins, third-parties create add-ins to add additional functionality in Word, for example Adobe has a PDF maker add-in, some printer manufacturers might create an add-in so the user can modify various print options from the application, etc. Unfortunately, there are a large number of add-ins that t don’t honor you preferred settings and keep turning various options back on (or off) each time you start Word. Should the issue arise again the next step is to track down the offending add-in and disable it. The best way to start this process is to find your active add-ins, click the Office Button, click Word Options, and on the Add-ins tab, provide us a list of the add-ins you see under Active Application Add-ins and we’ll provide instructions for how to disable them along with a "best guess" as to which one could be causing the issue if there are several.

~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP
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2010-04-19T23:28:19+00:00

Hi Sharon,

Beth suggested a fix for the problem. It has worked.

You’ve done so much to help me, and you’ve spent so much of your time in giving me advice, that I want to say a huge ‘thank you’.

Keep in touch? Email removed for privacy

Regards,

m-

Hi Mal,

I notice you didn't say "cautiously" this time! ;-)

I've just seen Beth's latest post after she re-read the full history (posted one hour after your post above). Just so that we can keep tabs on the problem - especially in the light of her reference to the factory default settings of the Registry Data key vs add-ins - had you done the Registry Data Key delete before Beth's solution? Not important if her solution fixed the problem but, as I say, just to keep the history up to date.

I hope this is *the* definitive solution. Phew!

E-mail addresses are stripped from the Forum for security purposes so I couldn't see yours. My email address is: my first name[dot]my family name[at symbol]yahoo[dot]com . How cryptic is that?

Bye for now,

Sharon

Sharon Roffey

Queensland, Australia
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