G'Day Jessica,

The 'little text lines' are there to tell you that a useful feature of Word
(Click-and-Type) is available to you. Please see:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...550971033.aspx
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"Raoena" wrote in message
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Hi,
I'd like to get Word to stop putting little text lines next to the pointer
when I am mousing over text. I looked but could only find info on changing
the pointer itself, not on changing the contextual behavior/appearance.

I really dislike added busyness when I am working in a file, so try to get
things as stripped down and simple as possible (a real challenge in Windows,
I am finding!)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Jessica