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Does anybody know what this symbol (¬) means?
Hi,
I'm editing a text in Word. I changed the page setup and suddenly apperead this symbol ¬ inside the words... The "Find" option does not recognize it (I wanted to use it in order to cancel all the "intruders"). Does anybody know what's that and how can I get rid of it? Thank you, Denise |
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Does anybody know what this symbol (¬) means?
¬ represents an optional hyphen, when you are showing nonprinting marks, and
it will display as on "ordinary" hyphen (-) when the word in question occurs hyphenated at the end of a line. To hide the ¬ symbol, turn off the display of nonprinting marks. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Denise" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm editing a text in Word. I changed the page setup and suddenly apperead this symbol ¬ inside the words... The "Find" option does not recognize it (I wanted to use it in order to cancel all the "intruders"). Does anybody know what's that and how can I get rid of it? Thank you, Denise |
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Does anybody know what this symbol (¬) means?
To: Denise,
If you're working with the hidden characters shown, then a conditional hyphen is shown as ¬. If this is the case, and if you still want to delete them with Find, go to Special characters and find "Optional Hyphen." Steven Craig Miller "Denise" wrote: Hi, I'm editing a text in Word. I changed the page setup and suddenly apperead this symbol ¬ inside the words... The "Find" option does not recognize it (I wanted to use it in order to cancel all the "intruders"). Does anybody know what's that and how can I get rid of it? Thank you, Denise |
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Does anybody know what this symbol (¬) means?
That tells you that there's an optional hyphen in the word at that
point -- if it occurs at the end of a line, the word will break there and only there. If you click the paragraph mark button in your Toolbar (or somewhere in your Ribbon!), or type Ctrl-Shift-*, _all_ the Non-Printing Characters, including the important ones like Paragraph Break and Tab, ,will go away. But maybe the checkbox for Discretionary Hyphens (is that what they're called?) in Tools Options View is checked. (That's where you go to always show the useful ones and not show the ones you only need once in a while, such as this one and the spaces between words.) On Aug 19, 8:31 am, Denise wrote: Hi, I'm editing a text in Word. I changed the page setup and suddenly apperead this symbol ¬ inside the words... The "Find" option does not recognize it (I wanted to use it in order to cancel all the "intruders"). Does anybody know what's that and how can I get rid of it? Thank you, Denise |
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