Pilcrows and middle dots, how to get rid of them.

[hooky]

Hi Microsoft people.
I was typing a document last night and now in hindsight htting the keys too
fast. I accidently keyed some command and the document I was writing now
shows a dot·in·between·each·word·as·I·have·put·in·these·words·using·the· Alt
250 code.

Not only that every document I have written and saved in 'My documents'
file, now shows up these dots in between each word - even those documents
written from long ago. I think I accidently keyed the Crtl, Microsoft or Alt
key at the bottom left of my keyboard.

Also what happened was that the Pilcrow ¶ sign is now showing at the end of
every paragraph, again even those documents I have written and saved from the
past. Such as ¶

But the funny thing, while each and every document shows these dots and
Pilcrow signs, whenever I print something out - they don't show up.

Can someone help me to get rid of these dots and Pilcrows? I am using
Windows XP Word.

Thanks, Errol Hooker.

 

[macropod]

Hi Errol,

Simply click once on the pilcrow symbol on the toolbar!

Cheers

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

 

[grammatim]

1. Howcome everyone is suddenly using the word "pilcrow"?

b. Howcome this is the number one question here?

iii. I don't see how anyone can make sense of what they're typing if
they don't have at least Paragraph Marks, and probably Tab Marks,
turned on.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yeah, I'm always impressed by the fact that anyone knows the word "pilcrow"
but doesn't know about nonprinting characters. This is significant because I
think I introduced the term when I first started writing about NPC some
years ago, first in these NGs and eventually in the referenced article.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

1. Howcome everyone is suddenly using the word "pilcrow"?

b. Howcome this is the number one question here?

iii. I don't see how anyone can make sense of what they're typing if
they don't have at least Paragraph Marks, and probably Tab Marks,
turned on.

 

[grammatim]

I'll be really impressed if you can get "octothorp" to catch on.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It experienced a brief vogue, but there are so many other names for the
symbol (hash, pound, number, not to mention the somewhat incorrect* "sharp"
in C#) in common use that I think it's unlikely that "octothorp" would catch
on. "Pilcrow" has the advantage of being much shorter (to type) than
"paragraph mark," not to mention, of course, being a lot more specific and
correct than the bizarre descriptions users come up with. I can understand
"backwards P," but I've yet to figure out what font must be in use for a
pilcrow to look like pi.

*The actual sharp symbol is U266F, not U0023, though I suppose they look
enough alike not to matter.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

I'll be really impressed if you can get "octothorp" to catch on.

 

[grammatim]

I've only previously seen them used together. Octothorp(e) is in the
11th Collegiate, and pilcrow isn't.

You can use # and b for sharp and flat in a ms. being sent to a
typesetter, but if they appeared in print they'd look strange indeed.