I don't know what I did or how the paragraph character got into my MSWord
office 2000 but it is extremely annoying. How do I delete it? All I can find
is how to insert it but I don't want it! When I type text into my paper it
also has dots and hyphens along with the paragraph character. I want them
gone. Please help.

On the Standard toolbar, click the Show/Hide toggle. It looks like a
paragraph mark.


"Lisa" wrote:

> I don't know what I did or how the paragraph character got into my MSWord
> office 2000 but it is extremely annoying. How do I delete it? All I can find
> is how to insert it but I don't want it! When I type text into my paper it
> also has dots and hyphens along with the paragraph character. I want them
> gone. Please help.
>

You press CTRL + SHIFT + 8. If you do it again, it will toggle off.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for reasons why
you might sometimes want to have nonprinting characters displayed, along
with several methods of toggling them on and off.

--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"Lisa" wrote:

> I don't know what I did or how the paragraph character got into my MSWord
> office 2000 but it is extremely annoying. How do I delete it? All I can find
> is how to insert it but I don't want it! When I type text into my paper it
> also has dots and hyphens along with the paragraph character. I want them
> gone. Please help.
>

The shortcut is Ctrl+*. This is Ctrl+Shift+8 on U.S. keyboards but not all.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Carol" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsAFE5129-3465-4E42-97F4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> You press CTRL + SHIFT + 8. If you do it again, it will toggle off.
>
> See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for reasons why
> you might sometimes want to have nonprinting characters displayed, along
> with several methods of toggling them on and off.
>
> --
> Carol A. Bratt, MCP
>
>
>
> "Lisa" wrote:
>
> > I don't know what I did or how the paragraph character got into my
MSWord
> > office 2000 but it is extremely annoying. How do I delete it? All I can
find
> > is how to insert it but I don't want it! When I type text into my paper
it
> > also has dots and hyphens along with the paragraph character. I want
them
> > gone. Please help.
> >