On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:55:03 -0700, Soloman10
wrote:

I've used MS Word 97 for some time now. Just recently when I open any saved
Word document, paragraph symbols, dots between words and page breaks are
visible where before they were not there. When I click on the "Print Preview"
the document appears without the symbols which is the way I would like the
document to appear when I am creating it.

Any help would be greatly greately appreciated. MS will not help and I am on
a fixed income and cannot afford to purchase upgrades as they suggest.
Thanks much . . .

Press the ¶ button on the toolbar to turn it off. The keyboard
shortcut for it is Ctrl+Shift+8. Both of these are "toggles" -- each
time you press it, it turns the symbols on or off.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm for
more information, including why you might occasionally want to see
those symbols.

You don't need an upgrade for this. :-)

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org