Turning off Date AutoComplete in Word 2007
In microsoft.public.word.docmanagement, someone complained that Word 2007 offers to autocomplete days, months, and dates. Someone responded by posting the following URL, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100997751033.aspx, which explains that it’s Word’s AutoComplete feature, and cannot be turned off. That would be fine–if it were actually true.
As it turns out, there actually is a way to turn this off in Word 2007, the statement to the contrary in that article notwithstanding. If you run the following macro, date AutoComplete should no longer occur:
Sub TurnOffAutoComplete()
Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = False
End Sub
Or, if you prefer a toggle, replace False with Not(Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips).
The problem was that AutoText autocomplete was causing problems in the Office 2007 beta because of the way Building Blocks were implemented. So, autocomplete for AutoText was removed. In Word 2003 and earlier, the autocomplete checkbox control both dates AND AutoText. In Word 2007, they disabled autocomplete for AutoText, but left it enabled for Dates.
At the same time they removed the checkbox from the interface, they nonetheless left the command in the object model. Hence, you can use this command to turn off the parts of autocomplete that were NOT removed.
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March 7th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Oh my God, it worked!
Thanks Herb!
Why didn’t Microsoft think of that?
BTW, is it possible to make the QAT bigger and floatable and accessible with a keystroke in Full Screen View, so that I move it where I want it and see everything. If you find that then you will be my personal hero, and I will stop hating Microsoft and the ribbon! (One would think it is easy. I was surprised the MS didn’t make any interface improvements with SP1.)
March 7th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
What you see is what you get, I’m afraid–the QAT can’t be detached or resized, or accessed in full screen view. Only time will tell if any of this will be added in Word 14.