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alfredwhitehead
Oct 09, 2024Copper Contributor
Excel form has underlines
I have a form that has two cells with a red wavy underline. I cannot highlight the wavy underline and I cannot remove/delete it. I does not show up when I do a printout of the form. It appeared in...
- Oct 11, 2024
alfredwhitehead Not that weird, it is the spell checker that works while you are typing. Normally it should wait until you type a character that usually denotes the end of a word, such as a space character, a period or a comma. Even this website does that if you are typing a reply and have what it thinks is a spelling error. In Word you can get rid of the wavy underlines by turning off spell checking while you type:
JKPieterse
Oct 10, 2024Silver Contributor
Can you post a screen-shot please? It sounds like a spell-checker highlight but as far as I know Excel doesn't "do" that?
alfredwhitehead
Oct 10, 2024Copper Contributor
This is one of the two "underlines". The other one appeared in a blank area when I added two rows to the bottom of the form.
- HansVogelaarOct 10, 2024MVP
Are you sure that this is in Excel, and not in Word?
- alfredwhiteheadOct 10, 2024Copper ContributorWell double darn! My idiot side is on display. You are correct it IS in MS Word not in Excel.
I'm so sorry. It has been so long since I made that up for my wife and I had forgotten where I did it.
Still the question remains the same, how to remove the wavy underline?- Patrick2788Oct 10, 2024Silver ContributorRight-click the underlined word | Spelling - you can Ignore it or add to dictionary (Word won't flag it in the future).