Help! Need to turn off "Displaying nonprinting characters"

A couple of weeks ago I used the shortcut key to "display
nonprinting characters" to edit a document in Word 2002.
For some reason, I have been unable to switch it off
since then. Every document I open--whether new or one
that's saved shows these characters.

I tried clicking on the shortcut key, tried using ctrl-
shift-8 and even used the installation CD to repair any
dammaged/lost files. All to no avail.

I take it my last recourse is to reinstall the whole
program? I really don't want to do that.

Probably reinstalling won't do you any good. I hope you won't need to do so.

With only one document open...

Tools = Options = View

Under Formatting marks:
Uncheck anything you don't want, especially "All."

(I leave my paragraph marks, tab characters and hidden text showing all the
time, but then I like to know why my documents look the way they do.)

Close Word. Restart your computer. If your settings are not saved, you
probably have a corrupt registry data key (which reinstalling or deleting
normal.dot won't fix). If so, see:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customizat...eySettings.htm and
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm for help in resetting
it.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Elena" wrote in message
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A couple of weeks ago I used the shortcut key to "display
nonprinting characters" to edit a document in Word 2002.
For some reason, I have been unable to switch it off
since then. Every document I open--whether new or one
that's saved shows these characters.

I tried clicking on the shortcut key, tried using ctrl-
shift-8 and even used the installation CD to repair any
dammaged/lost files. All to no avail.

I take it my last recourse is to reinstall the whole
program? I really don't want to do that.

Thank you. --Elena
-----Original Message-----
Probably reinstalling won't do you any good. I hope you
won't need to do so.

With only one document open...

Tools = Options = View

Under Formatting marks:
Uncheck anything you don't want, especially "All."

(I leave my paragraph marks, tab characters and hidden
text showing all the
time, but then I like to know why my documents look the
way they do.)

Close Word. Restart your computer. If your settings are
not saved, you
probably have a corrupt registry data key (which
reinstalling or deleting
normal.dot won't fix). If so, see:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customizat...aKeySettings.h
tm and
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm
for help in resetting
it.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word
(supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is
awesome!
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replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word
(supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is
awesome!
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"Elena" wrote in
message
...
A couple of weeks ago I used the shortcut key
to "display
nonprinting characters" to edit a document in Word
2002.
For some reason, I have been unable to switch it off
since then. Every document I open--whether new or one
that's saved shows these characters.

I tried clicking on the shortcut key, tried using ctrl-
shift-8 and even used the installation CD to repair any
dammaged/lost files. All to no avail.

I take it my last recourse is to reinstall the whole
program? I really don't want to do that.


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