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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default Useless excess symbols for word

To go even further, I'm amazed that users can work without text boundaries.
I feel completely at sea when I can't see the limits of the text area, have
some visual representation of text boxes (even when not selected), etc.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Jay

I am amazed that users can work without displaying at least some of the
non-printing characters. Now for Word 2009, non-printing characters should
be always on when using any editing view with ability to toggle them off
only in a Preview (non-editing) mode! (Now where's the address of the wish
list g.)

Terry


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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I'm always bemused that people complain when they see ¶ symbols all over
their
documents, but they fail to notice the toolbar button that also has a ¶
symbol
on it. That's the button that toggles the symbols on and off. It also has
a
keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+8.

Read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm for an
explanation of why you might want to see those symbols.

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:22:32 +0000, mrcharman
wrote:


Ok now this is a very noobish question but if you dont know how to
change it back (like me)
it would cause you allot of grief.

Ok on word its in some kind of format where every time I press space
back it makes a - symbol.

So-every-sentence-looks-like-this.

Oh and top of that every line has a big black back to front P

So every time I press return for a new line it does this

(back to front p put here)
(back to front p put here)
(back to front p put here)
(back to front p put here)

very annoying

Im using word 2000


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