What you did was click on the Show/Hide formatting button, otherwise known
Actually, the pilcrow button is a very gross way to toggle formatting
characters on and off, and I advise against using it. You surely want to
be able to see *some* formatting characters - for example, if you can't
see the paragraph characters at the end of paragraphs, you can't use
Word properly at all. Choose Word > Preferences > View to select the
exact set of formatting characters you want to see; for example, you can
turn off visibility of spaces between words as dots, but leave the
paragraph marks at the end of paragraphs in place. m.
I think I recorded that process into a macro to have an icon to turn on
everything except spaces--because the spaces are very distracting, but the
paragraph marks are very helpful. No, I lie, I didn't make a macro--though
that should be possible. Word actually has a predefined command to show
only paragraph marks (ShowPara), and I keep that handy on my toolbar.
And by the way, Lexie, you may also have hit the keyboard shortcut to toggle
show/hide--cmd-7--easier to accidentally do than click an icon, probably.
Daiya
.