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Misc. Symbols
Somehow my Word began adding misc. symbols when I am typing in a document.
For example, when I hit the space bar a "dot" appears; or when I hit the return key and "new paragraph" editing symbol appears. So, my document ends up with thousands of these misc. symbols which makes it difficult to edit my work. When I print the document the symbols aren't there.......Can anyone help me with this??? |
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Misc. Symbols
"Rondo" wrote:
Somehow my Word began adding misc. symbols when I am typing in a document. For example, when I hit the space bar a "dot" appears; or when I hit the return key and "new paragraph" editing symbol appears. So, my document ends up with thousands of these misc. symbols which makes it difficult to edit my work. When I print the document the symbols aren't there.......Can anyone help me with this??? These non-printing characters are very useful when editing. They let you see all non-breaking spaces, tab characters, regular spaces, soft returns, hard returns, etc. I always work with those on. It can take a little while to get used to them, but once you do get used to them, you can't work without them.. at least, I can't! (Whenever some one calls me over to help them with something they are doing in Word, the firt thing I do is display these characters... and more than half of the time this is enough to show them where they have gone wrong...) If you are going to do any serious work with Word, it is a good idea to learn to work with them.. Meanwhile, to turn them on/off, use the ¶ button on the tool bar... |
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Misc. Symbols
As Jean-Guy said, these can be useful. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for an explanation. To hide them, click the Show/Hide ¶ button on the Standard toolbar. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Rondo" wrote in message ... Somehow my Word began adding misc. symbols when I am typing in a document. For example, when I hit the space bar a "dot" appears; or when I hit the return key and "new paragraph" editing symbol appears. So, my document ends up with thousands of these misc. symbols which makes it difficult to edit my work. When I print the document the symbols aren't there.......Can anyone help me with this??? |
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