I was happily typing away when suddenly word has started putting all these
extremely annoying auto synmbols showing formatting all through all my
documents. I hate it. Please tell me how to remove them. I have looked in
help and as usualy it is useless.

Hi Genesis,

Hmm... "auto synmbols showing formatting"... you do not mean that you have
to depress the 'inverted P'-button to the right of your Standard toolbar, do
you?

I can't imagine what kind of symbols those would be otherwise.

Good luck,
Cooz
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"Genesis" wrote:

I was happily typing away when suddenly word has started putting all these
extremely annoying auto synmbols showing formatting all through all my
documents. I hate it. Please tell me how to remove them. I have looked in
help and as usualy it is useless.

It sounds as if you are seeing non-printing characters. If that is the case
you can click the pilcow (paragraph symbol) on your toolbar or you can go to
Tools | Options | View and under Formatting Marks deselect them. I hope this
has been helpful to you.
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"Cooz" wrote:

Hi Genesis,

Hmm... "auto synmbols showing formatting"... you do not mean that you have
to depress the 'inverted P'-button to the right of your Standard toolbar, do
you?

I can't imagine what kind of symbols those would be otherwise.

Good luck,
Cooz
--
PS: If this is a satisfying answer to your question and you're logged in via
the Microsoft site, please click Yes to "Did this post answer the question?".
Thanks.


"Genesis" wrote:

I was happily typing away when suddenly word has started putting all these
extremely annoying auto synmbols showing formatting all through all my
documents. I hate it. Please tell me how to remove them. I have looked in
help and as usualy it is useless.

I have the same problem but when I press the pilcow on the tool bar it just
adds the dots between words indicating a space and does not take away the
'enter' symbol. Therefore switching between having them and not having them
but the pilcow remains. Then yesterday I got little square appearing in a
document I had coppied and pasted from Access to word - into a table and I
can't see how to get rid of them either. They are like a degree symbol but
square.
Anne


"Carol" wrote:

It sounds as if you are seeing non-printing characters. If that is the case
you can click the pilcow (paragraph symbol) on your toolbar or you can go to
Tools | Options | View and under Formatting Marks deselect them. I hope this
has been helpful to you.
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"Cooz" wrote:

Hi Genesis,

Hmm... "auto synmbols showing formatting"... you do not mean that you have
to depress the 'inverted P'-button to the right of your Standard toolbar, do
you?

I can't imagine what kind of symbols those would be otherwise.

Good luck,
Cooz
--
PS: If this is a satisfying answer to your question and you're logged in via
the Microsoft site, please click Yes to "Did this post answer the question?".
Thanks.


"Genesis" wrote:

I was happily typing away when suddenly word has started putting all these
extremely annoying auto synmbols showing formatting all through all my
documents. I hate it. Please tell me how to remove them. I have looked in
help and as usualy it is useless.

On the View tab of Tools | Options, make sure that all the check boxes under
"Formatting marks" or "Nonprinting characters" are cleared.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"anne" wrote in message
...
I have the same problem but when I press the pilcow on the tool bar it
just
adds the dots between words indicating a space and does not take away the
'enter' symbol. Therefore switching between having them and not having
them
but the pilcow remains. Then yesterday I got little square appearing in a
document I had coppied and pasted from Access to word - into a table and I
can't see how to get rid of them either. They are like a degree symbol but
square.
Anne


"Carol" wrote:

It sounds as if you are seeing non-printing characters. If that is the
case
you can click the pilcow (paragraph symbol) on your toolbar or you can
go to
Tools | Options | View and under Formatting Marks deselect them. I hope
this
has been helpful to you.
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"Cooz" wrote:

Hi Genesis,

Hmm... "auto synmbols showing formatting"... you do not mean that you
have
to depress the 'inverted P'-button to the right of your Standard
toolbar, do
you?

I can't imagine what kind of symbols those would be otherwise.

Good luck,
Cooz
--
PS: If this is a satisfying answer to your question and you're logged
in via
the Microsoft site, please click Yes to "Did this post answer the
question?".
Thanks.


"Genesis" wrote:

I was happily typing away when suddenly word has started putting all
these
extremely annoying auto synmbols showing formatting all through all
my
documents. I hate it. Please tell me how to remove them. I have
looked in
help and as usualy it is useless.