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Jay Freedman
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"Barry" wrote:
For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen
(PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It
doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened
in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is.
I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid
of it.