date autocomplete - how to turn it off

[FredNZ]

HI all

We have a small network of 50 users on SBS2003 and Office 2007.

One of the main gripes here is that when you are in Outlook 2007 and create
an email, if you start typing teh date, e.g. "20 August 2009" when you get to
the "2009" Outlook automatically inserts "-10-15" so your date becomes "20
August 2009-10-15" if you press enter. (the -10-15 represents the current
date, month/day)
As you can imagine most people do then then curse as they go back up to
dlete the -10-15"

It is the same in Word of course, I've managed to run a macro on my onw
machine which turns off the autocomplete in Word (and I'd like to use that in
GPO if I could find out how) but also I'd love to be able to disable this
annoying "feature" in Outlook.

I simply cannot believe this feature exists and cannot be turned off, but
after much searching no one seems to be able to do this in Outlook?

I've tried running the macro in Outlook but it will not run, but as far as
I'm concerened there should be a simple GPO setting to disable this.

I've searched the registry on my own machine to try and find any indication
of this setting but to no avail.

Any help at all would be fantastic.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Did you check autocorrect settings? tools, options, spelling tab.

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[FredNZ]

HI Diane - thanks for the reply.

Yes - I've spent hours on this issue, haev tried turning off every option I
can find...nothing stops this annoying 'feature'.
I'm almost to the point of actualy paying MS for some support, but I am
highly doubtful they could do anything with this.


Regards
Fred Alvrez

Did you check autocorrect settings? tools, options, spelling tab.

--
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HI all

We have a small network of 50 users on SBS2003 and Office 2007.

One of the main gripes here is that when you are in Outlook 2007 and
create
an email, if you start typing teh date, e.g. "20 August 2009" when you get
to
the "2009" Outlook automatically inserts "-10-15" so your date becomes "20
August 2009-10-15" if you press enter. (the -10-15 represents the current
date, month/day)
As you can imagine most people do then then curse as they go back up to
dlete the -10-15"

It is the same in Word of course, I've managed to run a macro on my onw
machine which turns off the autocomplete in Word (and I'd like to use that
in
GPO if I could find out how) but also I'd love to be able to disable this
annoying "feature" in Outlook.

I simply cannot believe this feature exists and cannot be turned off, but
after much searching no one seems to be able to do this in Outlook?

I've tried running the macro in Outlook but it will not run, but as far as
I'm concerened there should be a simple GPO setting to disable this.

I've searched the registry on my own machine to try and find any
indication
of this setting but to no avail.

Any help at all would be fantastic.
Thanks in advance.

.