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(PRIVATE) AND OTHER SYMBOLS SHOWING ON WORD DOCUMENTS
For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen
(PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off.
-- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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Those particular fields probably can't be toggled with Alt+F9, as they're
Hidden text, toggled with the Show/Hide ¶ button. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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It didn't change anything. Then I selected all of the text and tried it
again - no change. ?? Any other ideas. Thanks. "Jay Freedman" wrote: You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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See my reply.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Barry" wrote in message ... It didn't change anything. Then I selected all of the text and tried it again - no change. ?? Any other ideas. Thanks. "Jay Freedman" wrote: You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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The show/hide marks let me add them, then remove them. But it didn't remove
the words (PRIVATE) and all of the other symbols. It is mainly on headings and subsections titles of the documents. It also looks like it is added permanently to text, even though it doesn't print when I print the document. It is so odd; it's almost like a virus made the field codes appear and translate, but won't allow me to automatically delete them. I started to remove the additional text itself, and it allowed me to do that. I was just hoping there was an easier way than having to go through the entire document(s). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Those particular fields probably can't be toggled with Alt+F9, as they're Hidden text, toggled with the Show/Hide ¶ button. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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TC fields are table of contents entry fields. You can certainly select and
delete them, with perhaps adverse results in your TOC. { PRIVATE } fields are usually found in documents converted from WordPerfect and contain information to help Word (or WordPerfect) convert the document back, if necessary. If you have no intention of converting back, you shoudl be able to select the field and delete it as you do any other field. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Barry" wrote in message ... The show/hide marks let me add them, then remove them. But it didn't remove the words (PRIVATE) and all of the other symbols. It is mainly on headings and subsections titles of the documents. It also looks like it is added permanently to text, even though it doesn't print when I print the document. It is so odd; it's almost like a virus made the field codes appear and translate, but won't allow me to automatically delete them. I started to remove the additional text itself, and it allowed me to do that. I was just hoping there was an easier way than having to go through the entire document(s). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Those particular fields probably can't be toggled with Alt+F9, as they're Hidden text, toggled with the Show/Hide ¶ button. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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Did you ever get the problem solved?
"Barry" wrote: The show/hide marks let me add them, then remove them. But it didn't remove the words (PRIVATE) and all of the other symbols. It is mainly on headings and subsections titles of the documents. It also looks like it is added permanently to text, even though it doesn't print when I print the document. It is so odd; it's almost like a virus made the field codes appear and translate, but won't allow me to automatically delete them. I started to remove the additional text itself, and it allowed me to do that. I was just hoping there was an easier way than having to go through the entire document(s). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Those particular fields probably can't be toggled with Alt+F9, as they're Hidden text, toggled with the Show/Hide ¶ button. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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My co-worker is having the same issue. The text {private} is next to
every title in a document. We used to use WordPerfect way back in the day and most of these documents were imported into Word. We all use these documents, however, my co-worker is the only one who sees the words {private} around each title. |
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We just fixed the problem here. Have her do this: Close Word. Locate
'Normal.dot' file and delete it (The quickist way is to enter this in the address bar of Windows Explorer: %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates). Then open Word and turn off the Show/Hide ¶ button. Close Word and open agian. " wrote: My co-worker is having the same issue. The text {private} is next to every title in a document. We used to use WordPerfect way back in the day and most of these documents were imported into Word. We all use these documents, however, my co-worker is the only one who sees the words {private} around each title. |
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It should not be necessary even to rename (much less delete!) Normal.dot,
thereby possibly losing years' worth of customizations. Just toggling the Show/Hide ¶ button (or clearing "Hidden text" ) on the View tab of Tools | Options) will do the trick if the { PRIVATE } fields are formatted as Hidden text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "pgarcia" wrote in message ... We just fixed the problem here. Have her do this: Close Word. Locate 'Normal.dot' file and delete it (The quickist way is to enter this in the address bar of Windows Explorer: %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates). Then open Word and turn off the Show/Hide ¶ button. Close Word and open agian. " wrote: My co-worker is having the same issue. The text {private} is next to every title in a document. We used to use WordPerfect way back in the day and most of these documents were imported into Word. We all use these documents, however, my co-worker is the only one who sees the words {private} around each title. |
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No, the problem is still there. I deleted normal.dot, but I'm not sure how
you "turn off" the Show/Hide button. Is that under formatting? The typical "reveal formatting" is not on, so I assume it is turned off. However, when I open the old documents, the private is still there along with the other sympols and numbers, mostly surrounding titles and subsections. "pgarcia" wrote: Did you ever get the problem solved? "Barry" wrote: The show/hide marks let me add them, then remove them. But it didn't remove the words (PRIVATE) and all of the other symbols. It is mainly on headings and subsections titles of the documents. It also looks like it is added permanently to text, even though it doesn't print when I print the document. It is so odd; it's almost like a virus made the field codes appear and translate, but won't allow me to automatically delete them. I started to remove the additional text itself, and it allowed me to do that. I was just hoping there was an easier way than having to go through the entire document(s). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Those particular fields probably can't be toggled with Alt+F9, as they're Hidden text, toggled with the Show/Hide ¶ button. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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You turn it off by clicking it. If that doesn't do the trick, go to the View
tab of Tools Options and make sure that all the boxes under "Formatting marks" are clear. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Barry" wrote in message news No, the problem is still there. I deleted normal.dot, but I'm not sure how you "turn off" the Show/Hide button. Is that under formatting? The typical "reveal formatting" is not on, so I assume it is turned off. However, when I open the old documents, the private is still there along with the other sympols and numbers, mostly surrounding titles and subsections. "pgarcia" wrote: Did you ever get the problem solved? "Barry" wrote: The show/hide marks let me add them, then remove them. But it didn't remove the words (PRIVATE) and all of the other symbols. It is mainly on headings and subsections titles of the documents. It also looks like it is added permanently to text, even though it doesn't print when I print the document. It is so odd; it's almost like a virus made the field codes appear and translate, but won't allow me to automatically delete them. I started to remove the additional text itself, and it allowed me to do that. I was just hoping there was an easier way than having to go through the entire document(s). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Those particular fields probably can't be toggled with Alt+F9, as they're Hidden text, toggled with the Show/Hide ¶ button. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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It should be possible to delete these stray fields just like any other -
send me a sample document containing the fields to the link on my web page and I'll try and see what it is you are missing here. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Barry wrote: It didn't change anything. Then I selected all of the text and tried it again - no change. ?? Any other ideas. Thanks. "Jay Freedman" wrote: You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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I've never had any problem deleting them myself, but the OP claims to be
unable to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... It should be possible to delete these stray fields just like any other - send me a sample document containing the fields to the link on my web page and I'll try and see what it is you are missing here. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Barry wrote: It didn't change anything. Then I selected all of the text and tried it again - no change. ?? Any other ideas. Thanks. "Jay Freedman" wrote: You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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Nor me, which is why I would have liked to have seen the sample document.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I've never had any problem deleting them myself, but the OP claims to be unable to. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... It should be possible to delete these stray fields just like any other - send me a sample document containing the fields to the link on my web page and I'll try and see what it is you are missing here. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Barry wrote: It didn't change anything. Then I selected all of the text and tried it again - no change. ?? Any other ideas. Thanks. "Jay Freedman" wrote: You're seeing field codes. Press Alt+F9 to turn them off. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Barry" wrote: For the first time ever, when I open some documents, I see on the screen (PRIVATE) around some words and other symbols (tc \1), that don't print. It doesn't happen when I open some documents, but a few that haven't been opened in 3 years will have this annoying formatting information, or whatever it is. I played around with some formatting options, but nothing seems to get rid of it. |
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