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Frank M

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Nov 19, 2001, 1:17:10 PM11/19/01
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All of my word documents are flooded with paragraph marks,
I want to hide or remove them. The help menu claims go to
the show/hide option on the standard toolbar and select
the hide option.
I'm running windows 98 and don't see a show/ hide option
to remove the paragraph marks,
any ideas?

Frank M

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Nov 19, 2001, 1:17:18 PM11/19/01
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S Webster

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Nov 19, 2001, 1:43:26 PM11/19/01
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It looks like a back-the-front P.

What version of Office are you running, the Windows version doesn't make any
difference.

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Charles Kenyon

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Nov 19, 2001, 2:03:32 PM11/19/01
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It's called a pillcrow (not sure if one or two "l" s is spelling). On your
formatting toolbar there should be a paragraph mark symbol. Click it.

Long way: Tools => Options => View (tab)
This brings up a dialog box that lets you get picky and decide which
non-printing characters you want to see while you are editing. Generally,
people find these, especially the paragraph marks, helpful.

BTW, if there is a paragraph mark at the end of every line, you are making
way too much work for yourself. Set your page margins and your paragraph
style indents, then type. Word will end the line at the appropriate time.
Use the Enter key to start a new paragraph, not to wrap to a new line.

Every time you press the Enter key while typing in Word, you add 50-100
separate formatting commands to your document file because every one of
those paragraph marks contains all of the formatting for a paragraph that
isn't in a style.

Hope this helps and that you didn't mind my digression.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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