Get rid of formatting symbols - How?

[Joe727]

Hi - I don't know what I inadvertently clicked, but every Word 2007 document
I open has formatting symbols prominently displayed.

Here's a screenshot of the paragraph symbol next to the cursor on a blank
document.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmsbink/Word Screenshot.jpg

When I open Word files that I previously created, they are plastered with
all kinds of similar symbols.

Question: I do I turn this feature off so that I don't see these symbols on
all of my Word documents?

Thanks

Joe

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Click on the Show/Hide button (¶) in the Home tab of the Ribbon. It has an
orange background in your screen shot which shows that it is active.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Joe727]

Thanks Doug - I've been using Word since Word '97 and I've never had a use
for that particular function. Now I know what I inadvertantly clicked.
BTW - I still love the Word 2007 ribbon.

Joe

 

[Stefan Blom]

For more on nonprinting marks, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.

 

[Joe727]

Thanks for the link.

Joe

For more on nonprinting marks, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.