On your standard toolbar, there is a icon that sort of looks like a backwards
P (if you hover on it, it reads Show/Hide) unclick this

"Housebz" wrote:

Not sure what to call this to be able to look it up! Somehow my Word 2003
started automatically showing all the formerly invisible indications of space
dots and return arrows and other formatting indications - how can I turn this
OFF??

Thank you!!
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Evelyn in Cincinnati