Paragraph Marks

[MRogers]

Version: 2008

I need help, I have a setting that I need to delete. All Word documents that I open have a paragraph mark, everytime I hit return more appear, I have customized a document that I created and when I deleted some of the document I now have formatting boxes on the right of my document. Please help!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Nonprinting characters can be turned off and on by clicking ¶ in the
Standard toolbar, or hit cmd-8. If that doesn't work, check the View
settings in the Word | Preferences menu. See here for more info, and an
explanation of how nonprinting characters can be extremely useful:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi M -

Version: 2008

I need help, I have a setting that I need to delete. All Word documents
that I open have a paragraph mark, everytime I hit return more appear, I
have customized a document that I created and when I deleted some of the
document I now have formatting boxes on the right of my document. Please
help!

.... And they always will have a ¶ - without them you couldn't have any
paragraphs & without paragraphs you couldn't have any content. Every time
you press return you're denoting the end of a paragraph (even if it has no
content) *and* the beginning of another. They as well as others are
indispensible for a number of reasons.

They can be hidden, but they can't be gotten rid of. Click the Show/Hide
Non-Printing Characters button (¶) on the Standard Toolbar or key Command+8
to toggle the marks on/off. See the following link for more insights:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

The illustrations & terminology is PC Word oriented but equally pertains to
Mac Word.