If you don’t know how to disable them, maybe I can help. I’d like to hear about the settings that drive you nuts. There are a lot of Word settings you can disable if they annoy you.

Force Word to ask you by choosing Options from the Tools menu, clicking the Edit tab, and checking the Prompt To Update Style option.ĭon’t select both options, of course - they don’t work together.

Disable the feature by choosing AutoCorrect Options from the Tools menu, clicking the AutoFormat As You Type option, and then unchecking the Define Styles Based On Your Formatting option in the Automatically As You Type section.

There are two ways you can stop Word in its tracks: Word, by default, knows when you’ve altered the formatting for an applied style and automatically updates the style - whether you want it to or not. Instead of applying several formats, you apply the style. Instead, I’m just going to tell you about the one that truly makes me want to stick pins in someone’s effigy.Įver been typing along, applied a style, and found it wasn’t the style you defined? A style is a set of formatting attributes you apply. I could list them all - there are several. On the other hand, some settings annoy me. Now, I realize that Microsoft professionals put a lot of thought into Word’s default settings, and I don’t fault them for their choices - well, not too much.

The number one complaint I have about Word is its dogmatic need to control everything I do. Try this: In Page Setup adjust the setting. If your Page Setup is set to a specific printers attributes, when the document is opened on a computer with a different printer, the layout will change based on the new printers specifications. On the other hand, some settings annoy me. I wonder if you are referring to an aspect of Word that is not affected by preferences: page setup. Word - Keep your stinking hands off my styles!

How do you turn off formatting in word