Special Characters in Document

[Rao]

Hi,
While editing a word document, I suddenly notice that
special characters like dot in place of a space and a
character like "Pi" symbol etc appear in the document.
While I look at the document in Print preview, it appears
ok.

Any suggestions on how to suppress these characters?

Rao

 

[Greg Maxey]

Rao,

You have toggled show non-printing characters. You should be able to toggel
it back off by click the same Pi looking symbol on your toolbar or by
pressing CTRL+*.

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

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

FWIW, the paragraph mark (pilcrow) bears no resemblance at all to pi.

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[Rao]

Hi
Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. However, I think
I have not described properly my dificulty.

In any case, I was able to get out of it by Unchecking the
checkbox against Tools->Options->View->Formating Marks-

All.

Thanks once again.

Rao

 

[Greg Maxey]

Depends on how you look at it

 

[Graham Mayor]

My fellow correspondents had identified your 'problem' correctly - the
formatting mark display is a toggle controlled with CTRL+* (CTRL+SHIFT+8) or
the pilcrow - ¶ - button on the toolbar. The access from tools > options >
view is merely a long winded route to the same place.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, aside from both having two legs...

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