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spacings, unwanted changes? desperate question!
Hi, I apologize for this! Just a few minutes ago I was typing something and
must have pressed the wrong keys because for a second the program froze and then when it recovered, all the words in my document had, instead of spaces between them, dots. and then at the end of each line, there was this the paragraph symbol (at least I think that's what it is). This symbol now also appeared on each empty line. I closed the document without saving it, but when I re-opened it things were the same! Then I checked my other documents and they had all been changed. Basically they have all been ruined. I restarted the computer and things were the same. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may have happened or what I should do? I will be deeply indebted to anyone who can help! Also, is there any way to disable the short-cut commands? This might have led to this problem. |
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spacings, unwanted changes? desperate question!
It isn't a "problem", it's just a feature you didn't know about. The
dots and ¶ marks are "nonprinting characters" that Word can turn on and off. Oddly enough, the ¶ button on the toolbar turns them on and off, and the Ctrl+Shift+8 key combination (which is probably what you pressed) also turns them on and off. You can indeed remove the shortcut -- see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...roToHotkey.htm (the Remove button in the Customize Keyboard dialog will do the job). -- 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. On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:07:01 -0800, Frontenac wrote: Hi, I apologize for this! Just a few minutes ago I was typing something and must have pressed the wrong keys because for a second the program froze and then when it recovered, all the words in my document had, instead of spaces between them, dots. and then at the end of each line, there was this the paragraph symbol (at least I think that's what it is). This symbol now also appeared on each empty line. I closed the document without saving it, but when I re-opened it things were the same! Then I checked my other documents and they had all been changed. Basically they have all been ruined. I restarted the computer and things were the same. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may have happened or what I should do? I will be deeply indebted to anyone who can help! Also, is there any way to disable the short-cut commands? This might have led to this problem. |
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spacings, unwanted changes? desperate question!
Try the following: Click on "Control" + *. In other words, hold the control
button down while you click on * (or Shift+8). My guess is that you don't know what the Show/Hide button is -- that would do the same thing. The "Show/Hide" button is on your tool bar and is a paragraph symbol. And, by the way, if I'm correct about this, nothing at all happened to your document; it's just a "view" option. "Frontenac" wrote: Hi, I apologize for this! Just a few minutes ago I was typing something and must have pressed the wrong keys because for a second the program froze and then when it recovered, all the words in my document had, instead of spaces between them, dots. and then at the end of each line, there was this the paragraph symbol (at least I think that's what it is). This symbol now also appeared on each empty line. I closed the document without saving it, but when I re-opened it things were the same! Then I checked my other documents and they had all been changed. Basically they have all been ruined. I restarted the computer and things were the same. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may have happened or what I should do? I will be deeply indebted to anyone who can help! Also, is there any way to disable the short-cut commands? This might have led to this problem. |
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spacings, unwanted changes? desperate question!
Thank you to both of you!!!
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spacings, unwanted changes? desperate question!
For some reasons why you might want to be able to see nonprinting
characters, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Frontenac" wrote in message ... Thank you to both of you!!! |
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