how do I get rid of the paragraph character?!

[Lisa]

I don't know what I did or how the paragraph character got into my MSWord
office 2000 but it is extremely annoying. How do I delete it? All I can find
is how to insert it but I don't want it! When I type text into my paper it
also has dots and hyphens along with the paragraph character. I want them
gone. Please help.

 

[Gitche Gumee]

I don't know what I did or how the paragraph character got into my MSWord
office 2000 but it is extremely annoying. How do I delete it? All I can find
is how to insert it but I don't want it! When I type text into my paper it
also has dots and hyphens along with the paragraph character. I want them
gone. Please help.

 

[Carol]

You press CTRL + SHIFT + 8. If you do it again, it will toggle off.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for reasons why
you might sometimes want to have nonprinting characters displayed, along
with several methods of toggling them on and off.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The shortcut is Ctrl+*. This is Ctrl+Shift+8 on U.S. keyboards but not all.