Word Marks "Locations"

[Guest]

OK, now I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I don't know what Word is
doing. Whenever I type something that Word thinks might be a location or
address, Word puts a line of pink dots under it. For example, Word thinks
that "Baseline AK" must be a town in Alaska, so it highlights the phrase.

The line of dots is not the same as the red squiggle Word puts under
misspelled words, and it doesn't seem to do anything. I've right clicked,
left clicked, double clicked, shift clicked, etc., and nothing seems to
happen and the dots don't go away.

They don't print, so I've tried to ignore them, but it bugs the heck out of
me that I don't know what Word is trying to tell me. Is there anybody out
there who can tell me what these dots mean, or how to get rid of them?

I'm running Word 2003 in Windows XP Professional.

Thanks.

 

[Richard O. Neville]

Select Tools-AutoCorrect Options, Smart tags tab. Uncheck "Addresses."

 

[Graham Mayor]

They are smart tags - tools > autocorrect options > smart tags.

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[Guest]

OK, that led me to the right area. My computer was already set with the
"Label text with Smart Tags" box cleared, and with all options cleared, so I
guess that the smart tags must have been put in when somebody else worked on
it. Clicking "Remove Smart Tags" got rid of them.

If these tags are so smart, what do they do?