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Paragraph symbols and space dots (and my hatred thereof)
While typing a word document, my office helper suddenly appeared and changed
my document so that paragraph symbols appear with ever new paragraph and dots for spaces appear between every word. I hate them with a white hot hatred. Any ideas how I can get rid of them? |
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Paragraph symbols and space dots (and my hatred thereof)
Boo Radley 401 wrote:
While typing a word document, my office helper suddenly appeared and changed my document so that paragraph symbols appear with ever new paragraph and dots for spaces appear between every word. I hate them with a white hot hatred. Any ideas how I can get rid of them? Take a long cold drink, and maybe some antacids... and click the ¶ button on the toolbar, or press Ctrl+*. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Paragraph symbols and space dots (and my hatred thereof)
G'Day Boo,
On the Standard Toolbar, there is a button that looks like: [¶] Clicking this repeatedly will 'toggle' the display of those characters on/off. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Boo Radley 401" Boo Radley wrote in message ... While typing a word document, my office helper suddenly appeared and changed my document so that paragraph symbols appear with ever new paragraph and dots for spaces appear between every word. I hate them with a white hot hatred. Any ideas how I can get rid of them? |
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Paragraph symbols and space dots (and my hatred thereof)
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm .
Boo Radley 401 wrote: While typing a word document, my office helper suddenly appeared and changed my document so that paragraph symbols appear with ever new paragraph and dots for spaces appear between every word. I hate them with a white hot hatred. Any ideas how I can get rid of them? |
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Paragraph symbols and space dots (and my hatred thereof)
Tools -- Options, View tab. Uncheck the ones you don't want.
(If you properly define styles, you won't need extra spacing between paragraphs.) LR "Boo Radley 401" wrote: While typing a word document, my office helper suddenly appeared and changed my document so that paragraph symbols appear with ever new paragraph and dots for spaces appear between every word. I hate them with a white hot hatred. Any ideas how I can get rid of them? |