Tab Marks Visible with "Show/Hide" Turned Off

[Karen]

My co-worker just showed me a Word document (2003) that has visible tab
marks. I'm confused as to why these are showing because the "Show/Hide" is
turned off.
Has anyone seen this before?
Thanks, Karen

 

[Jay Freedman]

My co-worker just showed me a Word document (2003) that has visible
tab marks. I'm confused as to why these are showing because the
"Show/Hide" is turned off.
Has anyone seen this before?
Thanks, Karen

The Show/Hide button on the toolbar is a shortcut for checking or unchecking
the "All" box in Tools > Options > View under Formatting Marks. If any of
the other check boxes in that section of the dialog are checked, the
Show/Hide button has no effect on them. You need to go into the dialog and
uncheck all those boxes to clear the display completely.

That setting affects all documents in that Word installation. If it occurs
just in that one document, though, maybe somebody replaced the tab
characters with actual arrow characters from one of the Wingdings fonts.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Karen]

Thank you VERY much!

The Show/Hide button on the toolbar is a shortcut for checking or unchecking
the "All" box in Tools > Options > View under Formatting Marks. If any of
the other check boxes in that section of the dialog are checked, the
Show/Hide button has no effect on them. You need to go into the dialog and
uncheck all those boxes to clear the display completely.

That setting affects all documents in that Word installation. If it occurs
just in that one document, though, maybe somebody replaced the tab
characters with actual arrow characters from one of the Wingdings fonts.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.