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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...
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:
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.
Are you sure that this is in Excel, and not in Word?
- Well 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?- Right-click the underlined word | Spelling - you can Ignore it or add to dictionary (Word won't flag it in the future).
- Patrick2788:
That worked for the underline under the word Silac.
However the other underline is in a blank space. I selected the entire "cell" and after some fiddling about I believe I have it gone permanently.
I then saved a copy of the clean file.
As an aside to this post I notice that I am getting those red wavy underlines randomly popping up as I type in other programs. They always disappear as I keep typing the word however.
VERY ODD!
