On Feb 1, 4:10*pm, Gordon Bentley-Mix gordon(dot)bentleymix(at)gmail
(dot)com wrote:
If it's in emails, it has nothing to do with Word.
It does if you use Word as your email editor.
And how would I do that?
If it were in Word, it's perfectly simple to turn off, but you
shouldn't.
Ditto the advice that Graham and Suzanne have given. Displaying/hiding
non-printing characters is a matter of personal preference - although for
"professional" users of Word the preference seems to be to have them show.. If
it were critical to the use of Word that non-printing characters be visible
all the time, then this would be the default setting and there would be no
option to hide them.
I believe showing paragraph marks is the default setting. (Not,
obviously, showing all non-printing characters.)
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Providing responses that represent your personal view of how thing should
and shouldn't be done and presenting them is a way that could be construed as
"mandatory" - i.e. the only "right" way to do things - is neither helpful nor
constructive. It is far better to make recommendations on best practices and
back up those recommendations with solid reasoning, but statements like "f
everyone learned to use their paragraph marks correctly" are rude and
demeaning and smack of superiority.
If I were responding to the OP, I would take an approach similar to
Suzanne's and directed the her to the MVP article, which does an excellent
job of providing detailed information on the cause of the "problem", methods
for resolving it and recommendations on best practices. I might have gone on
to say that I usually work with non-printing characters visible as it gives
me greater control over the finer details of my documents, but I would
_never_ tell someone that they _shouldn't_ hide them. After all, even if I
have the letters "MVP" after my name, who am I to tell someone how they
should work?
I don't have access to the MVP database.
Perhaps you should have a look at the "About Us" article on the MVP site
(http://word.mvps.org/AboutMVPs/index.htm) - especially the section entitled
"How NOT to become an MVP".
Why would I want to be an MVP? I know nothing about Fields, or Forms,
or Macros, or Merge, or many other things they deal with.