"L"-shaped characters appearing in corners of my documents

[Guest]

Hello
I am a pretty good Word User and by some errant key strokes, I now have some strange "L"-shaped characters in the four corners of my documents. They look like printable margin markers or something. I've never seen them before in 8 years of working with Word. they don't seem to be associated with headers. I've checked all the view options and haven't changed any settings that I can think of

Any thoughts on what these are and how to turn them off?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Dotted lines? Tools => Options => View (tab)
Text boundaries

If so, they don't print.
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Hello,
I am a pretty good Word User and by some errant key strokes, I now have

some strange "L"-shaped characters in the four corners of my documents.
They look like printable margin markers or something. I've never seen them
before in 8 years of working with Word. they don't seem to be associated
with headers. I've checked all the view options and haven't changed any
settings that I can think of.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hello,
I am a pretty good Word User and by some errant key strokes, I now have some strange "L"-shaped characters in the four corners of my documents. They look like printable margin markers or something. I've never seen them before in 8 years of working with Word. they don't seem to be associated with headers. I've checked all the view options and haven't changed any settings that I can think of.

Any thoughts on what these are and how to turn them off?

These "crop marks" appear when you enable support for an Asian
language. If you need to use Asian languages, then you're stuck with
them. If you don't, then go to Start | Programs | Microsoft Office
Tools | Microsoft Office <version> Language settings (the path may
vary slightly by Office version) and disable support for any Asian
languages.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. Text boundaries is not checked (per previous suggestion). No Asian Languages in language support (did have Norwegian and Swedish though), removed those so now only US English

Still have the "L"s in the corners of the doc.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. Text boundaries is not checked. No Asian Languages in language support (did have Norwegian and Swedish though), removed those so now only US English

Still have the "L"s in the corners of the doc.