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Pilcrow (carriage return) won't go away
Hello. I have a Word table (quite tiny - just one row about an inch and a
half wide, justified rightward on the page), that I somehow laboriously managed to get the text to wrap around (don't ask me how). It looked great till I re-worded some of the lines just above it, and now I find that one ends in a carriage return which refuses to delete. What might be wrong? Also, assuming I manage to delete it, is it likely I will have the same trouble I had before getting the text to wrap around the table? Usually that's no problem for me, but this time the text kept refusing to sit beside the table, and I fear the inadvertent carriage return may have something to do with how I somehow got it to work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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Pilcrow (carriage return) won't go away
Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button to hide the ¶.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Hello. I have a Word table (quite tiny - just one row about an inch and a half wide, justified rightward on the page), that I somehow laboriously managed to get the text to wrap around (don't ask me how). It looked great till I re-worded some of the lines just above it, and now I find that one ends in a carriage return which refuses to delete. What might be wrong? Also, assuming I manage to delete it, is it likely I will have the same trouble I had before getting the text to wrap around the table? Usually that's no problem for me, but this time the text kept refusing to sit beside the table, and I fear the inadvertent carriage return may have something to do with how I somehow got it to work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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Pilcrow (carriage return) won't go away
Doug, I must not have made my meaning clear. I don't need to make it
invisible, I want to get rid of it. The material coming after it should be part of the same paragraph. But when I put the cursor on it and press Delete, nothing happens! -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button to hide the ¶. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Hello. I have a Word table (quite tiny - just one row about an inch and a half wide, justified rightward on the page), that I somehow laboriously managed to get the text to wrap around (don't ask me how). It looked great till I re-worded some of the lines just above it, and now I find that one ends in a carriage return which refuses to delete. What might be wrong? Also, assuming I manage to delete it, is it likely I will have the same trouble I had before getting the text to wrap around the table? Usually that's no problem for me, but this time the text kept refusing to sit beside the table, and I fear the inadvertent carriage return may have something to do with how I somehow got it to work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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Pilcrow (carriage return) won't go away
What happens if you select the following material and drag it into the
position immediately before the ¶? To get the table where you want it, you may then have to place the selection inside the table and hover the mouse over the table until the square box with the direction arrows appears at the top left of the table then left click and drag on that box to move the table where you want it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Doug, I must not have made my meaning clear. I don't need to make it invisible, I want to get rid of it. The material coming after it should be part of the same paragraph. But when I put the cursor on it and press Delete, nothing happens! -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button to hide the ¶. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Hello. I have a Word table (quite tiny - just one row about an inch and a half wide, justified rightward on the page), that I somehow laboriously managed to get the text to wrap around (don't ask me how). It looked great till I re-worded some of the lines just above it, and now I find that one ends in a carriage return which refuses to delete. What might be wrong? Also, assuming I manage to delete it, is it likely I will have the same trouble I had before getting the text to wrap around the table? Usually that's no problem for me, but this time the text kept refusing to sit beside the table, and I fear the inadvertent carriage return may have something to do with how I somehow got it to work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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Pilcrow (carriage return) won't go away
Well, your guess was on the right track - when I select the material just
after the pilcrow, but not including the table, then the table is highlighted, too. No doubt it's attached to the pilcrow somehow, and the reason Word won't delete the pilcrow (carriage return) is that it's trying to protect me from deleting the table inadvertently? On the other hand, I can drag the table further down the page, and then THAT pilcrow - at least I thinks it was the same one since it was in the same place - does delete okay. But then another pilcrow some distance above the table refuses to delete. I know about the little square box with arrows at the upper left of the table - as I begin to recall, that's how I got the table into what was (for a time) the correct position in the first place, without any real understanding of what I was doing, however... What next? -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: What happens if you select the following material and drag it into the position immediately before the ¶? To get the table where you want it, you may then have to place the selection inside the table and hover the mouse over the table until the square box with the direction arrows appears at the top left of the table then left click and drag on that box to move the table where you want it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Doug, I must not have made my meaning clear. I don't need to make it invisible, I want to get rid of it. The material coming after it should be part of the same paragraph. But when I put the cursor on it and press Delete, nothing happens! -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button to hide the ¶. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Hello. I have a Word table (quite tiny - just one row about an inch and a half wide, justified rightward on the page), that I somehow laboriously managed to get the text to wrap around (don't ask me how). It looked great till I re-worded some of the lines just above it, and now I find that one ends in a carriage return which refuses to delete. What might be wrong? Also, assuming I manage to delete it, is it likely I will have the same trouble I had before getting the text to wrap around the table? Usually that's no problem for me, but this time the text kept refusing to sit beside the table, and I fear the inadvertent carriage return may have something to do with how I somehow got it to work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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Pilcrow (carriage return) won't go away
If you've dragged the table by its handle, it's wrapped and requires a text
paragraph to be anchored to. If it's at the end of a document, it must be followed by a paragraph mark even if inline. -- 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. "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Well, your guess was on the right track - when I select the material just after the pilcrow, but not including the table, then the table is highlighted, too. No doubt it's attached to the pilcrow somehow, and the reason Word won't delete the pilcrow (carriage return) is that it's trying to protect me from deleting the table inadvertently? On the other hand, I can drag the table further down the page, and then THAT pilcrow - at least I thinks it was the same one since it was in the same place - does delete okay. But then another pilcrow some distance above the table refuses to delete. I know about the little square box with arrows at the upper left of the table - as I begin to recall, that's how I got the table into what was (for a time) the correct position in the first place, without any real understanding of what I was doing, however... What next? -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: What happens if you select the following material and drag it into the position immediately before the ¶? To get the table where you want it, you may then have to place the selection inside the table and hover the mouse over the table until the square box with the direction arrows appears at the top left of the table then left click and drag on that box to move the table where you want it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Doug, I must not have made my meaning clear. I don't need to make it invisible, I want to get rid of it. The material coming after it should be part of the same paragraph. But when I put the cursor on it and press Delete, nothing happens! -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button to hide the ¶. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Hello. I have a Word table (quite tiny - just one row about an inch and a half wide, justified rightward on the page), that I somehow laboriously managed to get the text to wrap around (don't ask me how). It looked great till I re-worded some of the lines just above it, and now I find that one ends in a carriage return which refuses to delete. What might be wrong? Also, assuming I manage to delete it, is it likely I will have the same trouble I had before getting the text to wrap around the table? Usually that's no problem for me, but this time the text kept refusing to sit beside the table, and I fear the inadvertent carriage return may have something to do with how I somehow got it to work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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Pilcrow (carriage return) won't go away
Thanks, guys, it's working now. And yes, Suzanne: it turns out that, although
the old pilcrow can be deleted and restored at will, there's another one which refuses to delete. Thanks for explaining why. -- Peyton Todd "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you've dragged the table by its handle, it's wrapped and requires a text paragraph to be anchored to. If it's at the end of a document, it must be followed by a paragraph mark even if inline. -- 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. "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Well, your guess was on the right track - when I select the material just after the pilcrow, but not including the table, then the table is highlighted, too. No doubt it's attached to the pilcrow somehow, and the reason Word won't delete the pilcrow (carriage return) is that it's trying to protect me from deleting the table inadvertently? On the other hand, I can drag the table further down the page, and then THAT pilcrow - at least I thinks it was the same one since it was in the same place - does delete okay. But then another pilcrow some distance above the table refuses to delete. I know about the little square box with arrows at the upper left of the table - as I begin to recall, that's how I got the table into what was (for a time) the correct position in the first place, without any real understanding of what I was doing, however... What next? -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: What happens if you select the following material and drag it into the position immediately before the ¶? To get the table where you want it, you may then have to place the selection inside the table and hover the mouse over the table until the square box with the direction arrows appears at the top left of the table then left click and drag on that box to move the table where you want it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Doug, I must not have made my meaning clear. I don't need to make it invisible, I want to get rid of it. The material coming after it should be part of the same paragraph. But when I put the cursor on it and press Delete, nothing happens! -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button to hide the ¶. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Hello. I have a Word table (quite tiny - just one row about an inch and a half wide, justified rightward on the page), that I somehow laboriously managed to get the text to wrap around (don't ask me how). It looked great till I re-worded some of the lines just above it, and now I find that one ends in a carriage return which refuses to delete. What might be wrong? Also, assuming I manage to delete it, is it likely I will have the same trouble I had before getting the text to wrap around the table? Usually that's no problem for me, but this time the text kept refusing to sit beside the table, and I fear the inadvertent carriage return may have something to do with how I somehow got it to work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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Pilcrow (carriage return) won't go away
If you've got a paragraph mark that can't be deleted and is causing
pagination problems, you can format it as 1 pt or Hidden. For more, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm Also, if you don't need the table to be wrapped, go to the Table tab of Table Properties and choose None for the "Text wrapping." -- 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. "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Thanks, guys, it's working now. And yes, Suzanne: it turns out that, although the old pilcrow can be deleted and restored at will, there's another one which refuses to delete. Thanks for explaining why. -- Peyton Todd "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you've dragged the table by its handle, it's wrapped and requires a text paragraph to be anchored to. If it's at the end of a document, it must be followed by a paragraph mark even if inline. -- 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. "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Well, your guess was on the right track - when I select the material just after the pilcrow, but not including the table, then the table is highlighted, too. No doubt it's attached to the pilcrow somehow, and the reason Word won't delete the pilcrow (carriage return) is that it's trying to protect me from deleting the table inadvertently? On the other hand, I can drag the table further down the page, and then THAT pilcrow - at least I thinks it was the same one since it was in the same place - does delete okay. But then another pilcrow some distance above the table refuses to delete. I know about the little square box with arrows at the upper left of the table - as I begin to recall, that's how I got the table into what was (for a time) the correct position in the first place, without any real understanding of what I was doing, however... What next? -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: What happens if you select the following material and drag it into the position immediately before the ¶? To get the table where you want it, you may then have to place the selection inside the table and hover the mouse over the table until the square box with the direction arrows appears at the top left of the table then left click and drag on that box to move the table where you want it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Doug, I must not have made my meaning clear. I don't need to make it invisible, I want to get rid of it. The material coming after it should be part of the same paragraph. But when I put the cursor on it and press Delete, nothing happens! -- Peyton Todd "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button to hide the ¶. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peyton Todd" wrote in message ... Hello. I have a Word table (quite tiny - just one row about an inch and a half wide, justified rightward on the page), that I somehow laboriously managed to get the text to wrap around (don't ask me how). It looked great till I re-worded some of the lines just above it, and now I find that one ends in a carriage return which refuses to delete. What might be wrong? Also, assuming I manage to delete it, is it likely I will have the same trouble I had before getting the text to wrap around the table? Usually that's no problem for me, but this time the text kept refusing to sit beside the table, and I fear the inadvertent carriage return may have something to do with how I somehow got it to work. Thanks in advance, -- Peyton Todd |
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