How do I hide formatting and paragraph marks in my email messages

G

Guest

Does anybody know how to hide the paragraph and other formatting symbols on
the body's of my email messages. I don't know what I did, they just popped
up one day. I tried to find the answer in the help function but it tells me
to look for the paragraph (hide/show) symbol on the standard toolbar or in
the standard toolbar options and when I look I do not have an option for that
even in the customize section. Please help, I can't stand typing emails with
all of that extra junk showing!!! Thanks. Lindsey.
 
V

Vanguard

Lindsey said:
Does anybody know how to hide the paragraph and other formatting symbols
on
the body's of my email messages. I don't know what I did, they just
popped
up one day. I tried to find the answer in the help function but it tells
me
to look for the paragraph (hide/show) symbol on the standard toolbar or in
the standard toolbar options and when I look I do not have an option for
that
even in the customize section. Please help, I can't stand typing emails
with
all of that extra junk showing!!! Thanks. Lindsey.
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Not an Outlook issue. This is a Word issue. Ask in a Word newsgroup.
 
G

Guest

Are you useing Word editor, when you write emails? If yes, are you saying
that you dont have that button at all? I have it in standar toolbar, and if I
go to customize it, I have it on meny View -> Show all.
Paukkule
 
G

Guest

I am using the Word editor. I can't find the button at all. It is not on my
standard tool bar and when I click on toolbar options, add or remove buttons,
it is nowhere to be found.
 
G

Guest

I figured it out. Thank you all for your help!

Paukkule said:
Are you useing Word editor, when you write emails? If yes, are you saying
that you dont have that button at all? I have it in standar toolbar, and if I
go to customize it, I have it on meny View -> Show all.
Paukkule
Click to expand...
 
V

Vanguard

Lindsey said:
This is a word issue even if it is affecting my emails?
Click to expand...


You are in Word when composing the *document* that you may or may not then
send back to Outlook. You may have called Word from Outlook to compose your
e-mail using Word's template. You may have simply opened Word, composed
your document, and then used the File -> Send To menu to send the document
to Outlook. But you still in *Word* when you were composing the document.
The behaviors you note are those of Word, not Outlook. Outlook doesn't
control what you do inside of Word or how you CONFIGURE Word.
 
G

Guest

Actually I was able to fix it in Outlook, so this was the correct forum to be
asking the question in, thanks.
 
G

Guest

Lindsey,

Please include your solution with your post next time so you can help others
out who are having the same problem.

Here is the solution by the way:

Open up a new e-mail message>
Select "Tools" from the top menu >
Select "Options" from the drop down box >
Select the "View" tab >

Under the "Formatting marks" section uncheck all of the boxes. This will
remove all of the formatting marks from your message.

Jeff
 
L

Lynn

Thanks. Question is there not a shortcut keystroke to remove it. I get
calls from people who say they hit a series of keystrokes and it appears so
is there shortcut keys to make it disappear?

Thanks
Lynn
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Control+Shift+8.

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After furious head scratching, Lynn asked:

| Thanks. Question is there not a shortcut keystroke to remove it. I
| get calls from people who say they hit a series of keystrokes and it
| appears so is there shortcut keys to make it disappear?
|
| Thanks
| Lynn
|
|
| "Jeff" wrote:
|
|| Lindsey,
||
|| Please include your solution with your post next time so you can
|| help others out who are having the same problem.
||
|| Here is the solution by the way:
||
|| Open up a new e-mail message>
|| Select "Tools" from the top menu >
|| Select "Options" from the drop down box >
|| Select the "View" tab >
||
|| Under the "Formatting marks" section uncheck all of the boxes. This
|| will remove all of the formatting marks from your message.
||
|| Jeff
||
||
||
||
||
|| "Lindsey" wrote:
||
||| I figured it out. Thank you all for your help!
|||
||| "Paukkule" wrote:
|||
|||| Are you useing Word editor, when you write emails? If yes, are you
|||| saying that you dont have that button at all? I have it in standar
|||| toolbar, and if I go to customize it, I have it on meny View ->
|||| Show all.
|||| Paukkule
||||
|||| "Lindsey" wrote:
||||
||||| Does anybody know how to hide the paragraph and other formatting
||||| symbols on the body's of my email messages. I don't know what I
||||| did, they just popped up one day. I tried to find the answer in
||||| the help function but it tells me to look for the paragraph
||||| (hide/show) symbol on the standard toolbar or in the standard
||||| toolbar options and when I look I do not have an option for that
||||| even in the customize section. Please help, I can't stand typing
||||| emails with all of that extra junk showing!!! Thanks. Lindsey.
 
D

Dave

Jeff:
I have done all of these things and still have the formatting symbols in my
emails. I am not getting them in Word documents. I see the Paragraph symbol
in Word and can switch that off. I have tried Control/Shift/8 and that
doesn't work in Outlook for me. I have also unchecked all of the formatting
options in View on Tools/Options. I have selected Word 2003 as my email
editor - it's been that way since day 1. So why am I still seeing these
symbols in my new emails? Nothing I try seems to remove these formatting
marks from new emails and all of the requisite techniques have been
applied... Any other recommendations?
Thanks!
 
D

drallf

Dave: Did you ever figure out how to keep the formatting marks from
appearing? I'm having the same problem after trying the same fixes you tried.
 
R

Roady [MVP]

Press CTRL+SHIFT+8

Otherwise you might want to tell us your configuration and what you've tried
so far.
 
D

Diane Poremsky [MVP]

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