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Old September 30th, 2009, 07:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
JillP1015
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Default Funky symbols showing up on my Word doc

All of a sudden, my page now shows the symbol for new paragraph and all these
dots. Can anyone help?!!! PLEASE
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Old September 30th, 2009, 08:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Funky symbols showing up on my Word doc

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

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All of a sudden, my page now shows the symbol for new paragraph and all
these
dots. Can anyone help?!!! PLEASE


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Old October 1st, 2009, 08:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
DeanH
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Default Funky symbols showing up on my Word doc

Use Ctrl+Shft+8 or the ΒΆ icon (on the Home ribbon or the Standard toolbar) to
toggle the view of these.
See: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm for more
information and how these little critters can be very helpful.

Hope this helps
DeanH


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All of a sudden, my page now shows the symbol for new paragraph and all these
dots. Can anyone help?!!! PLEASE

 




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