Thanks for the help, Suzanne. I guess I will stop banging my head against that brick-wall
and store a copy of your document!
Pat.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You may as well give up. On the View tab of Tools | Options, they used to be
called "nonprinting characters." Now they're called "formatting marks." But
if you search for "nonprinting characters" in Word's Help, you'll get a lot
of topics about "special characters." If you search for "formatting marks,"
you'll get a brief description of how to show/hide them. That's it. That's
why we provided the article at
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Pat" wrote in message
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Thanks for the mvp list.
I typed "pilcrow" into Word Help (the intellectual approach to finding a
topic...) but it
had never heard of it.
Neither had my Encarta dictionary.
However "universal monetary symbol" DID bring up incidental help on how to
insert smiley
faces which I though might be useful but they won't show so it seems that
I am STILL not
stupid enough to get the trick to work.
I will work on the stupidity angle and perhaps soon will be able to trick
Word into
telling me where it's "bent arrow" lists are to be found.
Pat.

"Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message
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G'Day Pat,

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm .

By the way......
(I know that there is a trick to this - you have to pretend that you
are really looking
for something quite different and fool it into giving you an answer
that it thinks is
....
No! I'm afraid you've got it wrong! This works ONLY if you're really
stupid!
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia