Thank you Jay; that did it. I was afraid it was the sign of an impending
corruption in my document.

Now how the bookmarks got there is another mystery, but I'll just ignore them.

Thanks again!

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Hi Bob,

The gray square brackets represent bookmarks. If you don't want to see them,
go to Tools Options View and uncheck the Bookmarks option.

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Bob Boeri wrote:
If you mean the show/hide paragraph marks (the little reverse "p"
paragraph symbol), then that has no effect. I do not know what
"Show/Hide Editing Marks" are if they are not that. I do not see them
in the Tools Options (Edit or View) options either.

"Xero" wrote:

Are they editing marks?
Click the Show/Hide Editing Marks from the Standard toolbar.

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"bboeri" wrote:

I am getting occasional, random instances of pairs of light gray
square brackets around text, bullets, etc. in MS Word 2002 SP2.
They don't look like field codes, and I can't delete them. Any idea
what they are and how to remove them?