Little Boxes

[writerwoman]

Somehow I've managed to acquire a line of little black boxes in the
middle of a manuscript page, and I can't get them out. Can't backspace
them out. Can't "select" and "cut" or "delete" them out.

Any suggestions, preferably one that will save my sanity? And what
ARE they, by the way?

WriterWoman.Cheryl

 

[Patty Winter]

Somehow I've managed to acquire a line of little black boxes in the
middle of a manuscript page, and I can't get them out. Can't backspace
them out. Can't "select" and "cut" or "delete" them out.

Cheryl, I'm not sure what these are, but how big are they? Do they
appear in both Normal and Page Layout view? Both when you have hidden
characters showing and when you don't? (By toggling the paragraph-mark
symbol on the toolbar.)


Patty

 

[writerwoman]

Cheryl, I'm not sure what these are, but how big are they? Do they
appear in both Normal and Page Layout view? Both when you have hidden
characters showing and when you don't? (By toggling the paragraph-mark
symbol on the toolbar.)

Patty

Hi Patty.

The boxes were solid black and a little bigger than an asterisk. They
were in Normal View. I'm not sure about Page Layout View.

I have now gotten rid of them by following a suggestion from another
writer who uses (and tears her hair out over) Microsoft Word.

First, I did Save As to save the document with the boxes, because I
didn't want to lose everything I hadn't saved before the box line
popped up -- just in case I might be able to get the boxes out. (At
this point I wasn't hopeful.)

Then I closed the original -- without saving -- and quit Microsoft
Word. I waited a few minutes then reopened MSW and the original Not
Saved document. All the boxes were gone -- along with the unsaved
work I'd done before they popped up, of course.

In any event, the box line has disappeared and hopefully won't
reappear. I do wish I knew what I did to get them in the first place
so I don't have a repeat.

Cheryl

 

[Patty Winter]

The boxes were solid black and a little bigger than an asterisk. They
were in Normal View. I'm not sure about Page Layout View.

And they weren't the little black boxes that appear in the left
margin next to headlines and certain other formatted text when
you click on SHow Paragraph Marks?

In any event, the box line has disappeared and hopefully won't
reappear.

Oh, it was a *line* of boxes? Dunno what that would have been, then.


Patty