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Appearance of square brackets within text
I am using Word 2003 with XP Home.
I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K) and I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text above where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear on the printed output. Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick |
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They're bookmarks. You can turn the display of them on or off in the Tools
Options View dialog. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: I am using Word 2003 with XP Home. I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K) and I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text above where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear on the printed output. Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick |
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Problem solved. Thanks very much.
As far as I know, I have never intentionally created any bookmarks.Is it something that can be done accidentally? Nick "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... They're bookmarks. You can turn the display of them on or off in the Tools Options View dialog. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: I am using Word 2003 with XP Home. I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K) and I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text above where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear on the printed output. Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick |
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Cross-references and tables of contents create bookmarks at the points they
refer to. That's probably where those came from. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: Problem solved. Thanks very much. As far as I know, I have never intentionally created any bookmarks.Is it something that can be done accidentally? Nick "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... They're bookmarks. You can turn the display of them on or off in the Tools Options View dialog. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: I am using Word 2003 with XP Home. I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K) and I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text above where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear on the printed output. Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick |
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But the bookmarks Word creates are always "hidden" and don't show the
brackets. -- 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 ... Cross-references and tables of contents create bookmarks at the points they refer to. That's probably where those came from. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: Problem solved. Thanks very much. As far as I know, I have never intentionally created any bookmarks.Is it something that can be done accidentally? Nick "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... They're bookmarks. You can turn the display of them on or off in the Tools Options View dialog. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: I am using Word 2003 with XP Home. I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K) and I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text above where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear on the printed output. Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick |
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You can toggle Bookmark View on/off independently (of hidden items) under
Tools,Options, View tab. Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But the bookmarks Word creates are always "hidden" and don't show the brackets. -- 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 ... Cross-references and tables of contents create bookmarks at the points they refer to. That's probably where those came from. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: Problem solved. Thanks very much. As far as I know, I have never intentionally created any bookmarks.Is it something that can be done accidentally? Nick "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... They're bookmarks. You can turn the display of them on or off in the Tools Options View dialog. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: I am using Word 2003 with XP Home. I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K) and I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text above where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear on the printed output. Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick |
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Crikey! Suzanne on *receiving* end!
wrote in message ... You can toggle Bookmark View on/off independently (of hidden items) under Tools,Options, View tab. Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But the bookmarks Word creates are always "hidden" and don't show the brackets. -- 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 ... Cross-references and tables of contents create bookmarks at the points they refer to. That's probably where those came from. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: Problem solved. Thanks very much. As far as I know, I have never intentionally created any bookmarks.Is it something that can be done accidentally? Nick "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... They're bookmarks. You can turn the display of them on or off in the Tools Options View dialog. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: I am using Word 2003 with XP Home. I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K) and I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text above where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear on the printed output. Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick |
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I'm pretty sure this just toggles the display of bookmarks in that dialog,
not in the text. I just looked at a document with a TOC (and consequently bookmarks created by Word). With that box checked and the View option checked, I see *no* bookmarks in the document. What is even stranger, though, is that display of bookmarks must be per-document. I checked the View option for that specific document, checked the display, closed the document, then went back to Options to uncheck it and found it unchecked. Fearing that I might have clicked Cancel rather than OK after checking the box, I reopened the document, went to Options, and found it checked. That is, checked for that specific document and not for any other--one more of the View Options that appear to be application-wide that are in fact document-specific. sigh Is this made clearer in Word 2007? -- 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. wrote in message ... You can toggle Bookmark View on/off independently (of hidden items) under Tools,Options, View tab. Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But the bookmarks Word creates are always "hidden" and don't show the brackets. -- 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 ... Cross-references and tables of contents create bookmarks at the points they refer to. That's probably where those came from. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: Problem solved. Thanks very much. As far as I know, I have never intentionally created any bookmarks.Is it something that can be done accidentally? Nick "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... They're bookmarks. You can turn the display of them on or off in the Tools Options View dialog. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Nick wrote: I am using Word 2003 with XP Home. I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K) and I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text above where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear on the printed output. Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick |
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But the bookmarks Word creates are always "hidden" and don't show the
brackets. Not necessarily. For some strange reason Word sometimes creates bookmarks with names like 'OLE_LINK1' etc, when text is merely copied & pasted. It also does this by design if text is copied and pasted as a link. These bookmarks show up in the normal way. If Word has created any 'OLE_LINK' bookmarks that shouldn't be there, deleting them won't do any harm. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] |
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