Solution. Thanks Richard. It appears that I somehow took on the Normal template from one of my client's documents. By trashing the old one and creating a new Normal both problems have disappeared.
It has also disappeared when I use Entourage which was linked to Word. Lloyd >> Suddenly I am having problems when I type in both MS Word (in MS Office X) >> and Entourage. >> >> As I type an alternative word comes up beneath the work I am typing. It >> seems to be giving me alternatives as I type. This has just started and to >> save my sanity I want to stop it. >> >> Also when I copy from one document with Arial 12pt to a document in Arial >> 12pt the copied selection copies as Geneva 10pt. That never happened before. Clip > > I do wonder if you accidentally overwrote your existing Normal template with > someone else's, leading to the problems you see. If you have an older > document, with settings that you like, you should be able to save it as a > 'new' Normal template - just delete all the text in it, prior to saving it > as your new template with whatever name you give it. > > Richard > --
