Document won't print using show/hide parargraph marks. Blocked?

[Sadiemitzi]

When I click on the Show/Hide button on paragraph section above the document,
it shows my entire page to print with the marks. When I click on it again to
Hide the symbols, almost the entire page disappears, and it won't print what
I want it to show. What did I do wrong?

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Maybe almost your entire page somehow got formatted as Hidden text?

With Show/Hide turned off, select the whole document (Ctrl-A) and
press Ctrl-Shift-H (once or twice). If your text reappears, then that
was your problem.

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you are saying that text disappears when you hide nonprinting marks, the
text could have been inadvertently formatted as hidden; see also
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. If that's not it,
you may want to treat the document as corrupt (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm).