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December 1st, 2008, 04:05 PM
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How do I hide the formatting symbols?
Greg - I did what you suggested and the dots disappear, but I still have the
paragraph symbol and arrows pointing to addressees and date. It is driving me crazy. How do I get rid of them - I am a novice user. If I click on CTRl + Shift+ 8 it goes back to dots between words and if I click again it gets rid of dots, but the other symbols remain. Any suggestions? Sara "Greg" wrote: CTRL+SHIFT+* See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -----Original Message----- I suddenly have all of these symbols everywhere in my document. I'm assuming that they're formatting symbols. How do I hide them? They're too distracting. . 
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December 1st, 2008, 05:22 PM
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How do I hide the formatting symbols?
If you have Word 2003 or earlier, go to Tools Options View. If you have
Word 2007, go to Office button Word Options Display. In either case, you'll see a series of checkboxes for tabs, spaces, paragraph marks, and so forth, plus one labeled All. The Ctrl+Shift+8 shortcut only changes the All setting. If any of the others are checked individually, they won't switch off when you press the shortcut. Uncheck all of the boxes in that part of the dialog, and the extra marks will disappear. You should take a few minutes to learn what the marks are for, because they can be useful. Read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm. -- 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. Sara wrote: Greg - I did what you suggested and the dots disappear, but I still have the paragraph symbol and arrows pointing to addressees and date. It is driving me crazy. How do I get rid of them - I am a novice user. If I click on CTRl + Shift+ 8 it goes back to dots between words and if I click again it gets rid of dots, but the other symbols remain. Any suggestions? Sara "Greg" wrote: CTRL+SHIFT+* See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -----Original Message----- I suddenly have all of these symbols everywhere in my document. I'm assuming that they're formatting symbols. How do I hide them? They're too distracting. .
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December 1st, 2008, 05:27 PM
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How do I hide the formatting symbols?
Tools, Options, View and deselect all the items checked under non-printing
characters. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Sara" wrote in message ... Greg - I did what you suggested and the dots disappear, but I still have the paragraph symbol and arrows pointing to addressees and date. It is driving me crazy. How do I get rid of them - I am a novice user. If I click on CTRl + Shift+ 8 it goes back to dots between words and if I click again it gets rid of dots, but the other symbols remain. Any suggestions? Sara "Greg" wrote: CTRL+SHIFT+* See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -----Original Message----- I suddenly have all of these symbols everywhere in my document. I'm assuming that they're formatting symbols. How do I hide them? They're too distracting. .
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September 24th, 2009, 08:20 PM
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How do I hide the formatting symbols?
"Sara" wrote: Greg - I did what you suggested and the dots disappear, but I still have the paragraph symbol and arrows pointing to addressees and date. It is driving me crazy. How do I get rid of them - I am a novice user. If I click on CTRl + Shift+ 8 it goes back to dots between words and if I click again it gets rid of dots, but the other symbols remain. Any suggestions? Sara "Greg" wrote: CTRL+SHIFT+* See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -----Original Message----- I suddenly have all of these symbols everywhere in my document. I'm assuming that they're formatting symbols. How do I hide them? They're too distracting. . I have the same problem.... what do I do? Help me somebody.
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September 24th, 2009, 08:35 PM
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How do I hide the formatting symbols?
Did you read the referenced article? It explains that "This button toggles
between display of all nonprinting characters and whatever specific nonprinting characters you have chosen to display as an alternative." Please read the further explanation in the article to answer your question. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Baraka" wrote in message ... "Sara" wrote: Greg - I did what you suggested and the dots disappear, but I still have the paragraph symbol and arrows pointing to addressees and date. It is driving me crazy. How do I get rid of them - I am a novice user. If I click on CTRl + Shift+ 8 it goes back to dots between words and if I click again it gets rid of dots, but the other symbols remain. Any suggestions? Sara "Greg" wrote: CTRL+SHIFT+* See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -----Original Message----- I suddenly have all of these symbols everywhere in my document. I'm assuming that they're formatting symbols. How do I hide them? They're too distracting. . I have the same problem.... what do I do? Help me somebody.
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