extraneous characters in blank word document

[TONY]

I OPEN A BLANK WORD 2003 DOCUMENT AND I GET AN EXTRANEOUS CHARACTER** ON THE
DOCUMENT. I CAN'T DELETE IT. ALL OF MY PREVIOUS WORD DOCUMENTS ARE CORRUPT
WITH THIS CHARACTER. I TRIED REINSTALLING OFFICE 2003 WITH ALL UPDATES, BUT
NOTHING. I UNINSTALLED OFFICE FROM MY COMPUTER AND NOW I'M WAITNG A FEW DAYS
TO RE-INSTALL IT AGAIN.
ANY SUGGESTIONS?

**I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE CHARACTER AND I CAN'T TYPE IT FROM THE
KEYBOARD BUT DOES IT MATTER ....

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for an
explanation of what you're seeing.

 

[TONY]

THANK YOU!
I ACTUALLY DID FIGURE IT OUT MYSELF BY HOVERING OVER THE SYMBOL AND HAVING
THE OPTION TO EITHER "SHOW" OR" HIDE" IT.
THANKS.