There is a toggle tool for non-printing formatting marks in the Home ribbon
tab--it looks like a paragraph mark, and is at the northeastern edge of the
Paragraph section in the Home ribbon tab. The shortcut keystroke is
Ctrl+Shift+8. So, if it happens again, it's pretty easy to toggle on/off
(which might be how it got toggled off to begin with).
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"display name" wrote:
Had no prob. with prev. versions of Word, but 2007 is very confusing. I
cannot even compose a new doc without seeing formatting characters. For
example I get dots between each word instead of space. Also is there a
way to
get rid of the "ribbon" and just have regular menus? I thought there was
a
way. I may just need to re-install Word 2000 (the only other version I
have
here at home).
Don't know how to edit my message, so I will reply to it. I found that
something was checked in Word Options - Display. A checkmark was on "Show
All formatting marks". How crazy. I never checked that. It was that way by
default!