What is a show/hide symbol ?

[Jacky]

Whenever I open my M Word, I get this show/hide symbol for every start of the
line. Due to this, I also get every word separated by dots.

How do I switch this symbol off from the default settings?

PLEASE HELP.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Click the ¶ button on your toolbar or CTRL+* to toggle off the display.

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[D]

in between spaces in the text, on the same leval as the bottow of letters
sows up these very very small red dots. They are not spell check, they are
not hyper link, they are not paragraph symbols. they have been on a while
and driving me nuts.
Thanks D

 

[D]

In between words I have little tine red dots on the same leval is the botom
of the words. Each space would have two red dots. This is not a paragraph
etc prob.

Thanks

 

[Stefan Blom]

It might be text animation (or possibly hidden text). Which version of Word
are you using?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See the Help topic "I see something unusual in my document" at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP030894821033.aspx. Your red dots
(if they're actually "purple" and just look red) could indicate Smart Tags.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[R. D. Childers]

That is what I wanted to know. (How to toggle it on and off from the keyboard)