How to now hide highlights after performing grammar check?

[Tim]

Will someone kindly let me know how to "hide" the highlighted (underlined)
areas on a Word 97 doc (resume) after performing a grammar/spell check?
When forwarded via email, it appears when the document/resume is opened by
the receipiant the highlighted "mistakes" are still highlighted. As a
side-note, does it matter the final doc is saved and says "compatibality
mode"? THANK YOU!

 

[Jay Freedman]

The underlines the recipient sees are coming from the spelling and grammar
check in their copy of Word, not yours.

It would be far better to save the resume as a PDF file and send that -- you
don't expect the recipient to edit your resume, so why send it in an
editable format?

If a Word document is specifically requested, there is a way to prevent the
recipient's spelling and grammar checker from chewing up your prose. After
you have corrected all the spelling and grammar errors in the document (and
NOT before!), press Ctrl+A to select the entire body of the document. On the
Review tab of the ribbon, in the Proofing group at the left end, click the
Set Language button. In the dialog, check the box for "Do not check spelling
and grammar" and click OK.

The "compatibility mode" has nothing to do with spelling or grammar
checking. It simply says that you've saved the document in Word 97-2003
format but it's open in Word 2007, so features that are new in 2007 won't be
allowed in this document.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Stefan Blom]

To suppress grammar and spell check for a document, you can do the
following: Click Tools | Options. On the Spelling & Grammar tab, select
"Hide spelling errors in this document." Click OK.

 

[Stefan Blom]

I forgot to mention that you have to select "Hide grammatical errors in this
document" as well.

See also Jay's reply.