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• TURN OFF AUTO FORMAT IN WORD FOR MAC HOW TO

TURN OFF AUTO FORMAT IN WORD FOR MAC HOW TO

Are your colons and closed parentheses - : ) - automatically turning into a 🙂 smiley face in Microsoft Word? Here’s how to turn it off in Word’s AutoCorrect if you just can’t stand it.Īs for typing “B)” and it turning into a silly smiley face with sunglasses, the capital “B” or number 8 are often used in emoticons to represent glasses or sunglasses. However, I couldn’t find anything about Word’s AutoCorrect turning a B into sunglasses. If anyone out there has insight into why Jim’s “B’s” are turning into sunglasses, please share it. The same instructions work for Microsoft Outlook. You can turn off the feature or just delete individual symbols. Settings can be found by going to “Tools” in Word and selecting “AutoCorrect Options,” or for some versions of Office, look for “Options” under the “File” tab. In my Word’s AutoCorrect, the emoticon smiley face does exist in the same AutoCorrect settings to turn : ) into 🙂. The same feature in Office also can replace certain text with symbols, such as (c) with ©, the copyright symbol. You may have turned on some proofing features in Microsoft Office that will edit your words and make sure there are no misspellings or poor punctuation. Having sunglassed-smiley faces show up in a business document is not very professional, and some Office 365 users have complained about it online. Tech+ I <3 this question! Sorry, I just had to do that.

If you happen to know, could you tell me how I all of a sudden started getting these faces and, more importantly, how do I get rid of them? ~ Jim, from Flagler, CO I have always maintained that Word had a mind of its own and we users are there to give it exercise. When I do that, I get a smiley face with sunglasses. Word has been humming along well until about a month ago. At times, I must make a datum entry of (B).

I do volunteer data inputting work with my ‘puter. Q: I installed Windows 10 the day before it was going to cost me and at the same time, I installed Office 365 including Word. When smiley faces don't belong in a Word document, here's how to turn them off