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by akwok 1 view

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For some reasons, our staff member have to edit "Text" files by MS Word. All "Auto formatting function", like Auto-Numbering; Indent, and all other intelligent features of this sophisticate software should be "disabled". We want the original formatof the text file being edited should be retained. We will edit the text, adding some, or underline one or two lines of words.
After editing and emailed to the others, the file should keep all format and should be opened by other word processors in plain text format.
While we will use Word in other area which the original function will be used. How can I set Word to disable all editing function while opening the 'text file'?

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by cd

Have you tried from the INSERT menu of MSWORD, the AUTOTEXT/AUTOTEXT option?

There you have the AUTOFORMAT option that allows you to enable/disable

Always AutoFormat Plain Text ... .
And other useful options.

Hope to have been of assistance.

by lo

Not sure you can do both of those. Some editing can't be preserved in text format. Unless there is a pressing need to keep the 'master' document in text form, might use less of the featues of Word and keep the word processing to a minimum. You can disable most functions (such as getting bulleted data when entering 1)).

You can save the document as Text (with line breaks). This will produce a formatted version of the file (bullets if present get output as 1), or some such, paragraph, wordwrap, etc.). The resulting file can be imported/opened by any Word Processor capable of editing a text document or any text editor. I have saved documents this way but never tried to keep the editing non-Word so I don't know if that is possible. I think most of the 'features' can be disabled. Probably easier to use Notepad or some such than trying to get Word to NOT be a word processor.

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