Tab Arrows won't vanish

[Mo Hanan]

Could someone please help me by writing to my email
address<[email protected]>? I've been clicking the Mac tech
support buttons on this site and only get blank pages.

I use Word 98 on my iMac, OS 9.0.4. It has been just fine
till this morning, when the tab arrows appeared on every
document where I used them. Toggling the Show Paragraph
button makes all the othe Paragraph marks come and go, but
the Tab arrrows stay no matter what. I've quit the program,
Restarted the computer. Nothing helps. Any ideas?

Tha

 

[Clive Huggan]

Mo,

Edit menu -> Preferences -> "View" tab; then under the heading "Non-printing
characters" de-select "Tab characters".

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Canberra, Australia

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[Guest]

Thank you, Clive. Actually it was under the Tools menu, but
once I found the View tab, it did the trick.

Thrive & beam,
m

 

[Clive Huggan]

Thanks for the feedback, Mo. This was one of the few times I hadn't put in
the caveat "In Word 2001 it's in ...; in Word 98 it may be elsewhere/on...".
I had forgotten that difference (why MS subsequently changed to a menu
titled differently on the Mac and Windows platforms I don't know -- but it's
especially inconvenient if, as I do, you operate cross-platform). Anyway,
I'll resume my practice of including the caveat, thanks to your comment.

Cheers,

--Clive Huggan

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