How do I remove paragraph symbols on every line in Word?

Kathleen

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Feb 11, 2010, 10:58:01 AM2/11/10

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All my Word documents are coming up with paragraph symbols on every line. If
the line has text, the symbol is at the end of the line. If there is no text,
it's on the left. How do I remove this?

Graham Mayor

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Feb 11, 2010, 11:06:33 AM2/11/10

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CTRL+SHIFT+8
or click the � button

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caysimpson

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Feb 11, 2010, 11:14:04 AM2/11/10

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Click on the "Show/Hide" button on your toolbar.

Peter T. Daniels

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Feb 11, 2010, 1:48:02 PM2/11/10

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If they're on _every_ line, then you're probably looking at text
downloaded from a webpage, and you probably want to remove them so
that Word can be a proper word processor.

If the actual paragraphs are separated by two (or more) paragraph
symbols, then use Find/Replace (Ctrl-H) to Find two paragraph marks
(^p^p) and Replace with something not otherwise used in your document
(such as line break, ^l [lowercase L]), then Find/Replace every
paragraph mark (^p) with a space (type spacebar in the Replace with
box), then Find/Replace each line break (^l) with a paragraph break
(^p).

(If each of the lines ends with a space before the paragraph mark,
then Replace ^p with nothing at all -- leave the Replace with box
empty.)

Or maybe you hit "Enter" at the end of each line, as if you were using
a typewriter? Don't do that.

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marysully

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Feb 12, 2010, 3:56:03 PM2/12/10

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Do you mean the paragraph markers that show up when the show/hide key
(paragraph symbol located on the standard toolbar) is activated. Just click
on that button on the toolbar and the marks will go away. I like using the
paragraph marks when formatting. Also, they never print out.

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White Oglesby

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Oct 14, 2011, 12:09:54 PM10/14/11

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How do remove paragraph symbol from document.

> On Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:58 AM Kathleen wrote:

> All my Word documents are coming up with paragraph symbols on every line. If
> the line has text, the symbol is at the end of the line. If there is no text,

> it is on the left. How do I remove this?

>> On Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:06 AM Graham Mayor wrote:

>> CTRL+SHIFT+8
>> or click the � button
>>
>> --
>> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>>
>> My web site www.gmayor.com
>> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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>>> On Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:14 AM caysimpson wrote:

>>> Click on the "Show/Hide" button on your toolbar.
>>>
>>> "Kathleen" wrote:

>>>> On Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:48 PM Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>>>> If they are on _every_ line, then you are probably looking at text

>>>> downloaded from a webpage, and you probably want to remove them so
>>>> that Word can be a proper word processor.
>>>>
>>>> If the actual paragraphs are separated by two (or more) paragraph
>>>> symbols, then use Find/Replace (Ctrl-H) to Find two paragraph marks
>>>> (^p^p) and Replace with something not otherwise used in your document
>>>> (such as line break, ^l [lowercase L]), then Find/Replace every
>>>> paragraph mark (^p) with a space (type spacebar in the Replace with
>>>> box), then Find/Replace each line break (^l) with a paragraph break
>>>> (^p).
>>>>
>>>> (If each of the lines ends with a space before the paragraph mark,
>>>> then Replace ^p with nothing at all -- leave the Replace with box
>>>> empty.)
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe you hit "Enter" at the end of each line, as if you were using
>>>> a typewriter? Don't do that.
>>>>

>>>> wrote:
>>>> If
>>>> ext,

Stefan Blom

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Oct 14, 2011, 3:05:20 PM10/14/11

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Have you tried clicking the ï¿½ button as suggested earlier in this thread? If that doesn't work, you will have to display the Options dialog box and clear the "paragraph marks" option.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

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How do remove paragraph symbol from document.

> On Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:58 AM Kathleen wrote:

> All my Word documents are coming up with paragraph symbols on every line. If
> the line has text, the symbol is at the end of the line. If there is no text,
> it is on the left. How do I remove this?

>> On Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:06 AM Graham Mayor wrote:

>> CTRL+SHIFT+8
>> or click the ï¿½ button