I was using MS Word and I think clicked something by mistake. Now I have all these paragraph symbols and arrows all over my work. Is there a way to get rid of those?
2006-10-10 15:32:53 · 8 answers · asked by Santa's little helper 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
This answer assumes you are using MS Word 2003, other versions will most likely have similar steps.
Click in the Tools menu, and select Options
In the center of the Options window that opens in a section titled "Formatting Marks", and one of the options in there is "Paragraph Marks". Right now 'Paragraph marks' is most likely checked; so, uncheck it and select "OK".
Now the paragraph marks should be gone.
2006-10-10 15:37:34 · answer #1 · answered by jjbone_99 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are showing non printing "hidden" charachters you need to right click on your standard tool bar and then click add or remove buttons put the button with the paragraph symbol back on the "standard tool bar" (if not already there) and click it to make them dissappear. Either way they won't print out. The arrows are tabs and Paragraph marks are spaces
2006-10-10 22:39:11 · answer #2 · answered by knujefp 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Find the paragraph sign in your toolbar, if you can't find it, click View, then Toolbars, then check Standard, And you'll see the Paragraph icon is there. Maybe it was activated that's why you were seeing paragraph signs all over your sentences. Just deactivate it! Have fun!
2006-10-10 22:37:19 · answer #3 · answered by sirius_black2329 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are called "Formatting Characters" they won't be printed, They just appear on the screen while you are editing the document, If you click Print Preview they won't show up.
Anyway, if you wanna get rid of then do this:Tools/Options/View/ then uncheck all the boxes in the "formatting Marks" section.
2006-10-10 22:38:02 · answer #4 · answered by illamoon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, you turned on the "show all symbols" option. To turn it off again ...
Click on "Tools"
Click on "Options"
Click on the "View" tab
About midway down, there is a spot for "Formatting marks" ...
Unclick "All"
Click "OK"
2006-10-10 22:39:06 · answer #5 · answered by kc_warpaint 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just look for the |P (something like that) button and click it again and it will go away
2006-10-10 22:40:16 · answer #6 · answered by I Got a St. Patty's Baby! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, you clicked the Show/Hide button on your toolbar...you just need to click it again for them to go away.
2006-10-10 22:36:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you might have changed ur font to windings or something like that
press control+a - selects everything
then change the font
2006-10-10 22:37:25 · answer #8 · answered by efrenefren 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋