I was working in MS Word (2003) and all of a sudden computer symbols started
appearing at the beginning and end of every sentence and also between every
word. And now it is the same in all my stored MS Word .doc files. It puts
what looks like the letter P only backwards at the start and end of every
paragraph, and it puts a dot after every typed word! How do I get rid of
this? It is very distracting and I have a lot of composition to do tonight!

Thank you.

Click on the Show/Hide icon on the tool bar. The marks that you see are the
ones that control much formatting.
"Dr. Rand" wrote in message
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I was working in MS Word (2003) and all of a sudden computer symbols
started
appearing at the beginning and end of every sentence and also between
every
word. And now it is the same in all my stored MS Word .doc files. It puts
what looks like the letter P only backwards at the start and end of every
paragraph, and it puts a dot after every typed word! How do I get rid of
this? It is very distracting and I have a lot of composition to do
tonight!

Thank you.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:43:32 -0800, "Dr. Rand"
wrote:

I was working in MS Word (2003) and all of a sudden computer symbols started
appearing at the beginning and end of every sentence and also between every
word. And now it is the same in all my stored MS Word .doc files. It puts
what looks like the letter P only backwards at the start and end of every
paragraph, and it puts a dot after every typed word! How do I get rid of
this? It is very distracting and I have a lot of composition to do tonight!

Thank you.

Click the ¶ button on the toolbar... again, since this is probably how
you got the symbols in the first place.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

i have these symbols in my microsoft outlook. i cant figure out where they
came from or how to get rid of them. they are very annoying. considering i
depend on my email alot @ work. and its very distracting having these symbols
there before and after everything i type.

please help

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:43:32 -0800, "Dr. Rand"
wrote:

I was working in MS Word (2003) and all of a sudden computer symbols started
appearing at the beginning and end of every sentence and also between every
word. And now it is the same in all my stored MS Word .doc files. It puts
what looks like the letter P only backwards at the start and end of every
paragraph, and it puts a dot after every typed word! How do I get rid of
this? It is very distracting and I have a lot of composition to do tonight!

Thank you.

Click the ¶ button on the toolbar... again, since this is probably how
you got the symbols in the first place.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Tanya L Ray" Tanya L Ray @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
...
i have these symbols in my microsoft outlook. i cant figure out where they
came from or how to get rid of them. they are very annoying. considering i
depend on my email alot @ work. and its very distracting having these
symbols
there before and after everything i type.

please help

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:43:32 -0800, "Dr. Rand"
wrote:

I was working in MS Word (2003) and all of a sudden computer symbols
started
appearing at the beginning and end of every sentence and also between
every
word. And now it is the same in all my stored MS Word .doc files. It
puts
what looks like the letter P only backwards at the start and end of
every
paragraph, and it puts a dot after every typed word! How do I get rid
of
this? It is very distracting and I have a lot of composition to do
tonight!

Thank you.

Click the ¶ button on the toolbar... again, since this is probably how
you got the symbols in the first place.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

thank you soo much!!
it was the crtl shift 8 combo i must have done yesterday!!
i printed out that link that you sent me. in case i do something like that
again!!

have a great day :-)


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

--
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.

"Tanya L Ray" Tanya L Ray @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
...
i have these symbols in my microsoft outlook. i cant figure out where they
came from or how to get rid of them. they are very annoying. considering i
depend on my email alot @ work. and its very distracting having these
symbols
there before and after everything i type.

please help

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:43:32 -0800, "Dr. Rand"
wrote:

I was working in MS Word (2003) and all of a sudden computer symbols
started
appearing at the beginning and end of every sentence and also between
every
word. And now it is the same in all my stored MS Word .doc files. It
puts
what looks like the letter P only backwards at the start and end of
every
paragraph, and it puts a dot after every typed word! How do I get rid
of
this? It is very distracting and I have a lot of composition to do
tonight!

Thank you.

Click the ¶ button on the toolbar... again, since this is probably how
you got the symbols in the first place.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org