Microsoft Word has done something and I don't know how to fix it?

Question

I was typing something on Word, I pressed a key, don't know which one and now every space has a dot, at the end of the every paragraph is a symbol and every indented paragraph has an arrow, how do i get rid of this?

Answer 1

Something to do with the 'view' mode ... go to the 'view' pull-down menu & select 'normal' should fix it ..

Answer 2

You have activated a viewing option called 'Show All'. Basically, it replaces all invisible characters (i.e. spaces, indents, etc.) with a symbol that you can see.

The key you probably pressed was Ctrl + * .

To undo this option, all you have to do is press the Ctrl (control) key and the * key at the same time. [You may have to press Ctrl and Shift and * to get this to work.

Answer 3

Its a formatting option. I don't really remember the name coz i don't use it much... but look at the toolbar on top of your document and see what icons are 'on'. There would be one with a solid-bold-vertical double line. You need to toggle this to fix the issue.

By the way, when you print your document, these dots and arrows won't appear.

Answer 4

Go to Tools, Customize, Commands, View, Show All
Click this symbol and the dot will be gone.

Answer 5

Find the Word toolbar. Click on the symbol that looks like Pi.

Answer 6

If you look on the top line of your toolbar,(top right of your screen, next to the page sizing) you will see a backwards facing P. Just click it and they will disappear. These are non printing characters. They just show all your keystrokes.

Answer 7

theres a sumbol at the top whch i would discarble as a black dot with to lines coming doning from the side of it click on that and that will solve ur problam

Answer 8

Try to UNDO. Press Ctrl+Z until you went back where you want it