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Please note that I already read all related questions, but my issue is different.

I have in some Word documents brown dashed lines across some paragraphs, which apparently come to notify that something is wrong with the formatting there, because when I change the font size of part of a paragraph I get these lines there. This is happening only to some files. When I convert it to a PDF those lines disappear.

Any idea how to get rid of it?

Here is a screenshot: screenshot

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    The brown lines go away at some point in the document and do not present an issue. They do not go into a PDF (as you said). Red Underlines are spelling errors and do not go away. I do not think they go into a PDF. Blue underlines are grammatical errors and do not go into a PDF.
    – John
    Feb 21, 2023 at 19:53
  • For me appearing in Word is also an issue.
    – George Lee
    Feb 21, 2023 at 20:32
  • If what you have is related to formatting, then just correct the formatting. I correct my documents as I go and my documents are much better for doing that.
    – John
    Feb 21, 2023 at 20:36
  • John, maybe do you know how to turn that feature off, or maybe do you know the name of these lines, which would help a lot?
    – George Lee
    Feb 21, 2023 at 20:38
  • Look in Word, Options, Display, then under Under Always show these formatting marks on the screen, remove the selection for what you do not want.
    – John
    Feb 21, 2023 at 20:40

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To disable the detection of formatting inconsistencies :

  • Open File > Options
  • Click Advanced on the left
  • In the Editing Options section, uncheck "Keep Track of Formatting" (which will also disable "Mark formatting inconsistencies")
  • Click OK.

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