When viewing my Microsoft Word documents in Print Layout, four L shaped
lines appear in the four margin corners of the document. At the same
time this happened, a button pair appeared on my toolbar indicating
left-to-right orientation (and vice versa).

In reading other posts on this group, the solution to this problem
seems to be disabling any Asian languages from the Microsoft Office XP
Language Settings. However, the only language I have listed there (and
the only language ever knowingly installed on my system) is English,
and thus I should not have the symptoms of the Asian languages
settings.

How do I solve this problem since I can't disable what is not enabled
in the first place?

Version: Word 2002 SP3
OS: Windows XP SP2

Thanks in advance,
BDT

[SLC]

This just happened to me. I ended up with Japanese, Dutch and other languages loaded - they just showed up yesterday on their own (no Asian). I searched "Disabling Languages" in Word Help and followed the instructions. I disabled all languages except English, and now my right angle lines are gone.

Hope this helps you.
SLC

Originally Posted by B D T

When viewing my Microsoft Word documents in Print Layout, four L shaped
lines appear in the four margin corners of the document. At the same
time this happened, a button pair appeared on my toolbar indicating
left-to-right orientation (and vice versa).

In reading other posts on this group, the solution to this problem
seems to be disabling any Asian languages from the Microsoft Office XP
Language Settings. However, the only language I have listed there (and
the only language ever knowingly installed on my system) is English,
and thus I should not have the symptoms of the Asian languages
settings.

How do I solve this problem since I can't disable what is not enabled
in the first place?

Version: Word 2002 SP3
OS: Windows XP SP2

Thanks in advance,
BDT