You can have Word mark, with wavy blue underlines, text you have formatted inconsistently in your document. This feature is useful when you want to make sure that you have applied direct formatting, such as italics, consistently or that you have used styles whenever possible.
For each formatting inconsistency, Word suggests a way that you can make the formatting consistent and give your document a more professional-looking appearance.
Click Tools.
Click Options.
The Options dialog box appears.
Click the Edit tab.
Click Mark formatting inconsistencies (
Right-click a formatting inconsistency to display a menu.
To correct the inconsistency, click the first option on the menu.
You can ignore all occurrences of this inconsistency by clicking Ignore Rule.
Word selects the inconsistency, corrects or ignores it, and removes the wavy blue underline.
Click anywhere outside the selection to continue working.
Repeat steps 1 to 2 for each inconsistency.
What kinds of formatting inconsistencies does Word check for?
Word looks for occurrences of similar, but not identical, formatting that you applied directly to text or lists. Word also looks for occurrences of formatting you applied directly to text that matches styles you applied elsewhere in your document.
I do not want Word to check for formatting inconsistencies any longer. How do I turn off this feature?
Repeat steps 1 to 5 in the subsection “Display Format Inconsistencies.” Deselect the Mark formatting inconsistencies option in step 4 ( changes to