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Three stars have turned into a line of dots
I put in three stars to separate two lines of text and forgot to press the
space bar and pressed enter by mistake. The stars turned into a row of dots that I can find no way of removing. I have shown the formatting, and can delete all the para symbols, but the dots remain. Before I go absolutely mental, can anyone PLEASE help by telling me how to get rid of them? I should be extremely grateful for any help in this. |
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Three stars have turned into a line of dots
See this article:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bizgen" wrote: I put in three stars to separate two lines of text and forgot to press the space bar and pressed enter by mistake. The stars turned into a row of dots that I can find no way of removing. I have shown the formatting, and can delete all the para symbols, but the dots remain. Before I go absolutely mental, can anyone PLEASE help by telling me how to get rid of them? I should be extremely grateful for any help in this. |
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Three stars have turned into a line of dots
I can't tell you how much you've helped me, thank you so very much.
At the bottom of the link you have me, it says that it is a good idea to turn of most of the Autocorrect things in Format. Do I have to do this each time I type a document, or only once? That is, if you also know the answer to this one! -- Gen Liphook UK "Lene Fredborg" wrote: See this article: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bizgen" wrote: I put in three stars to separate two lines of text and forgot to press the space bar and pressed enter by mistake. The stars turned into a row of dots that I can find no way of removing. I have shown the formatting, and can delete all the para symbols, but the dots remain. Before I go absolutely mental, can anyone PLEASE help by telling me how to get rid of them? I should be extremely grateful for any help in this. |
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Three stars have turned into a line of dots
(This answer may appear twice due to problems when posting).
Thank you for your feedback. I am glad I could help you. About the AutoCorrect options: You only need to change the settings once. The settings apply to all documents and not to the individual document. And I really recommend that you turn of the settings. -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bizgen" wrote: I can't tell you how much you've helped me, thank you so very much. At the bottom of the link you have me, it says that it is a good idea to turn of most of the Autocorrect things in Format. Do I have to do this each time I type a document, or only once? That is, if you also know the answer to this one! -- Gen Liphook UK "Lene Fredborg" wrote: See this article: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bizgen" wrote: I put in three stars to separate two lines of text and forgot to press the space bar and pressed enter by mistake. The stars turned into a row of dots that I can find no way of removing. I have shown the formatting, and can delete all the para symbols, but the dots remain. Before I go absolutely mental, can anyone PLEASE help by telling me how to get rid of them? I should be extremely grateful for any help in this. |
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Three stars have turned into a line of dots
To add to what Lene said, there's a separate article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm that makes recommendations about that. Only you can decide which "auto" things you want to take advantage of, but there are some that are definite hazards. -- 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. "Bizgen" wrote in message ... I can't tell you how much you've helped me, thank you so very much. At the bottom of the link you have me, it says that it is a good idea to turn of most of the Autocorrect things in Format. Do I have to do this each time I type a document, or only once? That is, if you also know the answer to this one! -- Gen Liphook UK "Lene Fredborg" wrote: See this article: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bizgen" wrote: I put in three stars to separate two lines of text and forgot to press the space bar and pressed enter by mistake. The stars turned into a row of dots that I can find no way of removing. I have shown the formatting, and can delete all the para symbols, but the dots remain. Before I go absolutely mental, can anyone PLEASE help by telling me how to get rid of them? I should be extremely grateful for any help in this. |
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