What you are describing could be bookmarks. On the Tools menu, click
Options. Click the View tab. Clear the "Bookmarks" option and click
OK.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Jane Ugilt" wrote in message
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Somehow I have got some codes in some of my word documents. On the
screen
they look like either a big capital I or a big square bracket, both
in grey.
They do not appear on the printed document.

I have the feeling that it might be from old Word Perfect documents
converted to Word documents, but I am not sure. It seems like I have
pushed a
button to make them appear, but which one? I have tried with Alt+F9
with no
result. Also show/hide does not work on this.