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How do I turn off viewing formatting chars when composing a docume
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). |
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How do I turn off viewing formatting chars when composing a docume
"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! |
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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). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "display name" wrote in message ... "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! |
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How do I turn off viewing formatting chars when composing a docume
You may have clicked on the Show/Hide (¶) button.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "display name" wrote in message ... "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! |
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How do I turn off viewing formatting chars when composing a docume
It is NOT that way by default. However, there are two other ways to
get that box checked (and unchecked again): either click the ¶ button on the Home ribbon, or press Ctrl+Shift+8. You probably did one or the other by mistake (and both of these things were in previous versions of Word). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:34:01 -0700, display name wrote: "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! |
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