Formatting marks won't shut off. Please Help!!

lawtech

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Dec 20, 2004, 2:01:06 PM12/20/04

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The formatting marks will not shut off and It is driving me insane. I click
the button that looks like a backwords P and that doesn't work.

Barb Reinhardt

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Dec 20, 2004, 2:15:52 PM12/20/04

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Select TOOLS -> OPTIONS and turn off the formatting marks on the VIEW menu.

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drallf

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Jun 19, 2009, 7:57:01 AM6/19/09

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"lawtech" wrote:

> The formatting marks will not shut off and It is driving me insane. I click
> the button that looks like a backwords P and that doesn't work.

If you hit "ctrl" "shift" "*" it will shut off the marks. However, I've not
been able to figure out how to keep the marks from appearing in the first
place? I'm hoping someone knows the solution? (They just started appearing so
I'm wondering if it's caused by a virus?)

Graham Mayor

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Jun 19, 2009, 8:28:39 AM6/19/09

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They will appear if you open a document that has been saved with them
displayed, or if you create a document from a template saved with them
displayed.

Word 2003 has a habit of losing settings stored in the data key in the
registry (i.e. Tools > Options). You can overcome this by forcing errant
settings with autorunning macros. In this instance the command line would be

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Peter T. Daniels

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Jun 19, 2009, 10:12:16 AM6/19/09

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In your View Options, you can set each type of mark to show
individually (paragraph, tab, etc.), and those settings are not
overridden by the button. Maybe some or all of those options are
checked.

On Jun 19, 8:28 am, "Graham Mayor" <gma...@REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote:
> They will appear if you open a document that has been saved with them
> displayed, or if you create a document from a template saved with them
> displayed.
>
> Word 2003 has a habit of losing settings stored in the data key in the
> registry (i.e. Tools > Options). You can overcome this by forcing errant
> settings with autorunning macros. In this instance the command line would be
>
> ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False
>

> Seehttp://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

>
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> My web sitewww.gmayor.com

> Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org

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> drallf wrote:
> > "lawtech" wrote:
>
> >> The formatting marks will not shut off and It is driving me insane.
> >> I click the button that looks like a backwords P and that doesn't
> >> work.
>
> > If you hit "ctrl" "shift" "*" it will shut off the marks. However,
> > I've not been able to figure out how to keep the marks from appearing
> > in the first place? I'm hoping someone knows the solution? (They just

> > started appearing so I'm wondering if it's caused by a virus?)-

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Jun 19, 2009, 11:02:43 AM6/19/09

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I don't believe that's the case, Graham. What I do see is that a document
seems to inherit the display setting of the window it is opened in. For
example, I may have NPC displayed in one document and hide them in another.
If I close the second document and open or create a new one, it will (or at
least may, depending on how I open it) have NPC hidden even though they are
still displayed in the first document.

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Graham Mayor

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Jun 20, 2009, 12:41:03 AM6/20/09

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You may well be right, but the macro should force what happens for each
opened document.

The action of the � button is determined by the settings checked in Tools >
Options > View > Formatting Marks. If (say) paragraph mark is checked here,
the paragraph marks will be displayed regardless of the setting of the �
toggle.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
> I don't believe that's the case, Graham. What I do see is that a
> document seems to inherit the display setting of the window it is
> opened in. For example, I may have NPC displayed in one document and
> hide them in another. If I close the second document and open or
> create a new one, it will (or at least may, depending on how I open
> it) have NPC hidden even though they are still displayed in the first
> document.
>

Jesse Souki

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Mar 21, 2023, 8:29:20 PM3/21/23

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Does CTRL+Shift+P work to toggle it on and off?

Peter T. Daniels

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Mar 21, 2023, 11:25:59 PM3/21/23

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On Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 8:29:20 PM UTC-4, Jesse Souki wrote:
> Does CTRL+Shift+P work to toggle it on and off?

That should open the Paragraph Format pane. (Nothing to do with
the formatting marks, which are Ctrl-Shift-8 [which is asterisk on
the US keyboard but can be other things on other keyboards].)

kara smith-laubenstein

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Apr 3, 2023, 4:20:29 PM4/3/23

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On Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 7:29:20 PM UTC-5, Jesse Souki wrote:
> Does CTRL+Shift+P work to toggle it on and off?

I have been combing websites to figure out how to turn off the formatting marks that I mysteriously turned on and your suggestion did it! Thank you!! I had tried a million things!