Try this, Chip:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/g...oft_wor d.htm
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~Anne Troy

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"Chip Mochel" wrote in message
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Here is an easy one....when typing text..."formated:" rectangles appear on
the right edge of a widened page with dots leading to the formating
element.
This happens repeatedly down the right edge of the page for all manner of
formatting. In the "View" drop down menu clicking "Markup" gets rid of it
but when the document is saved and re-opened there it is again. I have
searched for, and unchecked, just about every options box I can find and
it
stll automatically appears and will not go away. I did nothing to ask
that
this appear in the first place. How does one prevent this formatting
stuff
from automatically being displayed?