WORD 2003 - Prevent autocompletion of asterisks & hyphens

[kumarkumar]

Whenever I enter a series of hyphens or minus signs (--------------------) and press Enter, the hyphens/minuses get converted to a straight line. This line is impossible to delete.

Similarly whenever I enter a series of asterisks (***************) and press Enter, the asterisks get converted to a dotted straight line. This line is again impossible to delete.

How do I prevent WORD from doing this?

[spacesurfer]

I'm sure that feature is somewhere in options not sure where but

right after you type Enter, if you press the back key, it will be the way it was.

so, hit backspace and it's undo the conversion to line.

[kumarkumar]

Yeh, hitting backspace as well as ctrl+Z works, but I want to get rid of the autocompletion totally. Its so annoying

I have looked through the whole "options" settings, but couldn't find anything dealing with it.

[kumarkumar]

Nevermind, fixed it.

Edited August 19, 2008 by kumarkumar