Some text in a document is surrounded by brackets that I did not place
there. How can they be removed?
They are probably bookmarks. Dark grey I-shaped brackets? Word randomly
generates them sometimes when you copy text, don't know why.
You can hide them in Word|Preferences, View panel, but if you get a lot, you
might want to delete them.
You can delete them one by one using the Insert|Bookmark dialog.
You can delete them all by running this macro occasionally.
Dim i As Long
For i = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Count To 1 Step -1
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(i).Delete
Next i