Light gray square brackets appearing in MS Word docs

[bboeri]

I am getting occasional, random instances of pairs of light gray square
brackets around text, bullets, etc. in MS Word 2002 SP2. They don't look like
field codes, and I can't delete them. Any idea what they are and how to
remove them?

 

[Xero]

Are they editing marks?
Click the Show/Hide Editing Marks from the Standard toolbar.

 

[Bob Boeri]

If you mean the show/hide paragraph marks (the little reverse "p" paragraph
symbol), then that has no effect. I do not know what "Show/Hide Editing
Marks" are if they are not that. I do not see them in the Tools > Options >
(Edit or View) options either.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Bob,

The gray square brackets represent bookmarks. If you don't want to see them,
go to Tools > Options > View and uncheck the Bookmarks option.

 

[Bob Boeri]

Thank you Jay; that did it. I was afraid it was the sign of an impending
corruption in my document.

Now how the bookmarks got there is another mystery, but I'll just ignore them.

Thanks again!

 

[kaykay]

Hello...just wanted to thank you for explaining that so simply....it helped
me too!