How can I eliminate pilcrow signs and dots between words?

[Clerkkent]

All of a sudden I have a whole bunch of pilcrow signs (paragraph signs) all
over my documents. When I open a new document there is a ps there waiting
for me.
There is also a dot between each word.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Word, to no avail

 

[Jay Freedman]

All of a sudden I have a whole bunch of pilcrow signs (paragraph
signs) all over my documents. When I open a new document there is a
ps there waiting for me.
There is also a dot between each word.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Word, to no avail

Did you notice that there happens to be a button with a pilcrow (¶) on the
toolbar (or Home ribbon, if Word 2007)? Click it. Or, equivalently, press
Ctrl+Shift+8.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for
information.

And next time something goes bump, ask us before you waste time uninstalling
and reinstalling. For Word, that exercise almost never solves any problems!

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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