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WORD - symbols when i hit "ENTER"
i was trying to add an entry to my table of contents (and have it be linked
to my document) and somehow i did something to make a million little symbols appear on my page!!! they look like two straight lines with a black filled in circle at the top (a backwards P) sort of. this symbol appears every time i hit enter. please help me to get rid of this formatting!!! |
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WORD - symbols when i hit "ENTER"
Those symbols are called pilcrows and each one marks the end of a paragraph.
If you don't want to see them, click on the button on the toolbar which has the same symbol on it, or press Ctrl+*. -- Enjoy, Tony "toronto word doc" toronto word wrote in message ... i was trying to add an entry to my table of contents (and have it be linked to my document) and somehow i did something to make a million little symbols appear on my page!!! they look like two straight lines with a black filled in circle at the top (a backwards P) sort of. this symbol appears every time i hit enter. please help me to get rid of this formatting!!! |
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It sounds like you're describing the paragraph mark, which can be a useful
diagnostic when trying to figure out what's happening in some documents. In any case, you can toggle them on/off using Ctrl+Shift+8, or by clicking the paragraph mark in the Standard toolbar. For more precise control over it and other non-printing characters, choose Tools- Options - View, and look at the Formatting Marks section. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "toronto word doc" toronto word wrote in message ... i was trying to add an entry to my table of contents (and have it be linked to my document) and somehow i did something to make a million little symbols appear on my page!!! they look like two straight lines with a black filled in circle at the top (a backwards P) sort of. this symbol appears every time i hit enter. please help me to get rid of this formatting!!! |
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WORD - symbols when i hit "ENTER"
Two ways
Either click on the button with ¶ next to the zoom percentage in your tool bar or Tools - Options - under Formatting marks, clear paragraph marks. Some of us keep all of those formatting marks turned on all of the time. It makes working on a document al lot easier. I see too many documents where people hit the enter key at the end of a line rather than change the margins. That really screws things up when you're trying to insert that text into another document. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "toronto word doc" toronto word wrote in message ... i was trying to add an entry to my table of contents (and have it be linked to my document) and somehow i did something to make a million little symbols appear on my page!!! they look like two straight lines with a black filled in circle at the top (a backwards P) sort of. this symbol appears every time i hit enter. please help me to get rid of this formatting!!! |
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