Help with Word - urgent!

[GDG]

Just working - clicked on something accidentally and now the type is coming out red and underlined instead of standard black. If I go to font, it just shows arial, automatic etc so how do I get rid of the red??

try ctrl shift n - for normal text

has all the text gone red or just a bit - if just a bit highlight go to where it said 'automatic' and choose black

first suggestion didn't work

it's just everyhing I know type - all previous stuff is still in the normal black I know I hit something accidentally as I was moving the cursor but don't know what it is!

Even if I choose black it stays red - help!

you must have changed the style - your favourite word!

put you cursor over a character and see what style is showing

Highlight your text and click the U button for the underline to go. Click the font colour button to return to black text.

find what style the correct text is in

sack it - email the document to me!

your missing American Idol they're doing Stevie Wonder

You may have gone into the proofreading mode. My computer only has WordPerfect at work so I can't walk you through, but look under tools and see if there is something like that.

no, style is the same onthe black and the red
that doesn't work sm
what have I done?

will mail it Jools

my take away is here now anyway! Need to finish the work for Monday though so needs sorting!

email, email!!!

Will try that too jabberwocky - thanks all

Odd... Agree with Jools- email to her!

OK could you have clicked on "track changes" do you think? That's my only suggestion...given that anything new you type comes out like this whereas text already in the document stays black.

that's what I was thinking marina - track changes! Could not remember what it was called.

Not dissimilar to what jabberwocky says really. I don't have the same version of Word here as at work and don't tend to use "track changes" or "final mark-up" but have seen the havoc it can cause when people inadvertently leave it on in a shared document!

x-posted ma'am!

GDG step-by-step

1. right click on the blue area next to where it says help and ensure that the word "Formatting" is ticked. This means you are displaying the formatting tool bar.

1. Highlight the text and right click. Select "Font" from the drop down menu.

1. Check the options shown. "Font Style" in the middle should be "regular". "Font Colour" - if it's red change to automatic. If it's "Automatic" come back and let us know!

I think it's track changes too. You might have an extra toolbar floating around somewhere. If not, click on View, Toolbars then Reviewing to get the toolbar with the buttons you need on screen.

There's a button towards the end of the toolbar called Track Changes - click that and it will stop it happening for the rest of the document.

To get rid of the red underlined text, find the button marked Accept Change, click on the arrow to the right of it then Accept All Changes and you should be back to normal.

NoPearls has it!

you are right girls - track changes was on - I've fixed it for her

thanks for your input!

how do you get rid of the line in the margin? I thought it would disappear when I turned track changes off?

The line I think is where it will accept the changes or not. Try right clicking right on the line.

Have you clicked the Accept Changes button?

Wow, you are all superstars! Thanks so much for your help