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Turn Off AutoFormat in Microsoft Word

by Avantix Learning Team | Updated Oct 9, 2021

Applies to: Microsoft^® Word^® 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 or 365 (Windows)

Yous can end Word from changing formatting automatically in your documents past turning off AutoFormat Every bit Yous Type settings in the AutoCorrect dialog box. If text or formatting is changing, at that place are several options y'all can turn off.

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When Word seems to change formatting automatically, AutoCorrect options are typically causing the alter (such as correcting spelling errors, adding lines, changing straight quotes to smart quotes, formatting ordinals with superscript, changing internet paths to hyperlinks and applying automatic bullets and numbering).

To access AutoCorrect, you'll need to display the Word Options dialog box then click Proofing in the categories on the left (screenshots are from Give-and-take 365 but a like in other versions of Word):

Word options dialog box with Autocorrect command.

Turning AutoFormat As You Type options off

To turn AutoFormat Every bit You Type options off:

Click the File tab in the Ribbon.
Click Options. A dialog box appears.
In the categories on the left, select Proofing.
Click AutoCorrect. A dialog box appears.
Select the Autoformat Equally You lot Type Tab.
Deselect on uncheck the desired options (such as Ordinals with superscript, Hyphens with a dash or Fractions with fraction character).
Click OK twice.

You tin can plow off options in the AutoFormat Equally Yous Blazon tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box:

AutoFormat As You Type dialog box in Word to turn off automatic formatting.

Don't confuse AutoFormat As Yous Blazon with AutoFormat. AutoFormat as You Blazon options will make changes as y'all type. AutoFormat options will modify an existing document. In that location are as well several other tabs in this dialog box including AutoCorrect and Math AutoCorrect. If you click the AutoCorrect tab, there are many spelling errors that are stock-still automatically (for instance, if yous type teh, AutoCorrect changes it to the).

Typically, when Discussion seems to insert a character or alter formatting automatically, a setting in AutoCorrect is causing the change.

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