How to stop automatic date completion?

[Conte]

When I write "2007" and then push the button "Enter", Word 2007 adds
automatically month and day. How can I stop this behaviour?
Someone has suggested to add "shift" when I type "enter". But why I have
to be forced to remember that I must hold the button "shift", whenever I
type "2007" and "Enter"?

 

[Guest]

Insert | AutoText, and then click AutoText. Clear the Show AutoComplete
suggestions check box.

 

[Summer]

Try
Office Button
Word Options
Proofing
AutoCorrect Options
Uncheck "Show AutoCorrect Options" box

Hope this helps?

 

[Conte]

Rae Drysdale ha scritto:

Insert | AutoText, and then click AutoText. Clear the Show AutoComplete
suggestions check box.

Do you refer to Word 2007?

 

[Conte]

Summer ha scritto:

Try
Office Button
Word Options
Proofing
AutoCorrect Options
Uncheck "Show AutoCorrect Options" box

Hope this helps?

Unfortunately it doesn't work. It seems not to be an autocorrect option.
It works whenever I type the four digits of the current year and then
push "Enter". It seems that I can avoid it only by typing something else
(Shift, Esc, space). But I wonder why microsoft creates programs more
and more automatic, less and less flexible, leaving to the user less and
less freedom, forcing the user to do what they want to do.

 

[Summer]

Here is some info from Herb Tyson on how to solve your "Autocomplete"

It is in this newsgroup but I've pasted it for you - excuse the format
(start at the bottom):

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Reinstalling, alas, doesn't fix settings issue, because setup is "trained"
to preserve existing settings.

The other possibility is that date AutoComplete has been turned off--though,
how, I can't imagine, unless you've been running rogue macros willy-nilly,
which seems unlikely, or that your Data key in the registry is corrupted,
which seems rather more likely.

To turn AutoComplete for dates on (assuming it's turned off), you'd need to
run a simple macro:

Sub TurnOffAutoComplete()
Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = True
End Sub

(See
http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/2007/05/28/turning-off-date-autocomplete-in-word-2007/
for details).

If that doesn't do it, then try deleting or renaming the Data key, as
described here:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm

You're looking for this (close all running instances of winword.exe first):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data

When you delete or rename it, Word will automatically create a new Data key
the next time Word is started.


--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com

Well it does work in safe mode, so I tried recreating normal.dotm and
reinstalling but it still doesn't work - any other thoughts?

 

[Summer]

Yes, a space. But I delete all AutoCorrect entries and use my own and I
don't have the date problem.

 

[Conte]

Sub TurnOffAutoComplete()

Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = True
End Sub

This has solved the problem. Thank you very much.