Funny characters in my word document

[Michelle Gohanna]

Some of my Word documents have funny characters in them that were not there
before. However, if I send the document through email to someone else the
character are not there.

What could be causing this.

 

[Jay Freedman]

You're probably displaying nonprinting characters
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). Press the ¶
button on the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Shift+8.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Braveheart]

What kind of funny characters? Are they cartoon paperclips that wink at you
or Einstein? This is the office assistant. You can turn it off click >Help

Hide the office assistant.

BH

 

[Jeanne]

I had a similar thing happen to me yesterday - someone brought me a copy of a
template they printed - a "square" appeared in the middle of the document the
first time she printed it - the second time she printed the document - it
appeared in a different place - the third time she printed it - it was gone.
Also, on a completely different document the "square" showed up again but had
the words "formtext" after it. When I unprotected and looked at the document
there was nothing out of the ordinary. You can't see these weird things when
you view the document online, they only show up - and not every time - when
you print. This leads me to believe that it is a print driver issue. I'm
having her print to a different printer for a while to rule this out.
Jeanne