How do I remove the dots between spaces?

[Guest]

On Word Help, it says that those dots between spaces are formatting marks. I
press the button to remove formatting marks, and nothing happens. Every time
I open an old document, there are new dots in the spaces that weren't there
before, and it's causing a real problem. Can anyone help?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Nonprinting characters can be turned off and on by clicking ¶ in the
Standard toolbar. If that doesn't work, check the View settings in the
Tools | Options menu. See here for more info, and an explanation of how
nonprinting characters can be extremely useful:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

 

[xaliquipiashio]

If you were questioning about two little red dots between spaces, I found this is called 'Smart Tags' (I'm sure the term is used loosely) under Tools, Options in Word 2003