How do I remove symbols showing formatting from word?

[Genesis]

I was happily typing away when suddenly word has started putting all these
extremely annoying auto synmbols showing formatting all through all my
documents. I hate it. Please tell me how to remove them. I have looked in
help and as usualy it is useless.

 

[Cooz]

Hi Genesis,

Hmm... "auto synmbols showing formatting"... you do not mean that you have
to depress the 'inverted P'-button to the right of your Standard toolbar, do
you?

I can't imagine what kind of symbols those would be otherwise.

Good luck,
Cooz

 

[Carol]

It sounds as if you are seeing non-printing characters. If that is the case
you can click the pilcow (paragraph symbol) on your toolbar or you can go to
Tools | Options | View and under Formatting Marks deselect them. I hope this
has been helpful to you.

 

[anne]

I have the same problem but when I press the pilcow on the tool bar it just
adds the dots between words indicating a space and does not take away the
'enter' symbol. Therefore switching between having them and not having them
but the pilcow remains. Then yesterday I got little square appearing in a
document I had coppied and pasted from Access to word - into a table and I
can't see how to get rid of them either. They are like a degree symbol but
square.
Anne

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

On the View tab of Tools | Options, make sure that all the check boxes under
"Formatting marks" or "Nonprinting characters" are cleared.