Unneccessary brackets

[mdavison]

As anyone else experienced the appearance of gray square brackets around
text in word 2003 for no apparent reason? I realize they usually are the
queue for a field code, but they seem to appear in my documents around text
for no apparent reason. I know they don't print and they're not really
hurting anything, but I'd like to get a better understanding of why they
appear out of no where. The text involved isn't formatted any differently,
sometimes its the beginning of a sentence, sometimes its mid-sentence.

Any info?
thx.

 

[DeanH]

Check that in the View tab on Options, that Bookmarks is checked, if so
uncheck and the grey square brackets should disappear.
DeanH

 

[Carol]

Tools|Options and deselect Field codes.

 

[Beth Melton]

They could be coming from an add-in.

Some add-ins utilize the Windows Clipboard to paste custom images on
their menu/toolbar items and this occurs when the application starts.
In order to preserve data the user placed on the on the Windows
Clipboard they first will preserve the clipboard contents, use the
Clipboard for pasting the button face, then send the previously copied
data back to the Clipboard. This can be accomplished using various
methods but I suspect the add-in developer is using bookmarks.

The add-in could be in Word but more than likely it's from another
program. I do know that Adobe PDFMaker causes this so if you are using
it that may be the reason.

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