i have these funny charaters appearing looks like bold P

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they look like bold backward P's what are they and how do i fix it, i cannot
use my word because of them being everywhere, dont know if i have activated
something accidently to cause this or what
 
Could they be paragraph marks? If so, you can show or hide them. To do so,
go to home - paragraph - click on the bold bakward P in the upper right-hand
corner. Good luck!
 
For what it's worth, having your non-printing characters showing does not
stop you from working. Some of us have trouble working without them.
 
Indeed. I have nonprinting marks displayed all the time. They are invaluable
when I'm looking for something in particular (for example: is it spacing
before/after or a blank paragraph causing the added vertical spacing?), and
when I don't need them I don't really see them. Still, I fell that something
is missing if I turn them off...

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



JoAnn Paules said:
For what it's worth, having your non-printing characters showing does not
stop you from working. Some of us have trouble working without them.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



kathy said:
they look like bold backward P's what are they and how do i fix it, i
cannot
use my word because of them being everywhere, dont know if i have
activated
something accidently to cause this or what
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No one fell. :-)

Rather, I *feel* that something is missing if I turn off the display of
nonprinting marks.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



Stefan Blom said:
Indeed. I have nonprinting marks displayed all the time. They are
invaluable when I'm looking for something in particular (for example: is
it spacing before/after or a blank paragraph causing the added vertical
spacing?), and when I don't need them I don't really see them. Still, I
fell that something is missing if I turn them off...

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



JoAnn Paules said:
For what it's worth, having your non-printing characters showing does not
stop you from working. Some of us have trouble working without them.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



kathy said:
they look like bold backward P's what are they and how do i fix it, i
cannot
use my word because of them being everywhere, dont know if i have
activated
something accidently to cause this or what
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I'm not sure which is more disconcerting to me, not having the nonprinting
characters or not having text boundaries. The latter make me feel especially
precarious.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Stefan Blom said:
No one fell. :-)

Rather, I *feel* that something is missing if I turn off the display of
nonprinting marks.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



Stefan Blom said:
Indeed. I have nonprinting marks displayed all the time. They are
invaluable when I'm looking for something in particular (for example: is
it spacing before/after or a blank paragraph causing the added vertical
spacing?), and when I don't need them I don't really see them. Still, I
fell that something is missing if I turn them off...

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



JoAnn Paules said:
For what it's worth, having your non-printing characters showing does
not stop you from working. Some of us have trouble working without them.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



they look like bold backward P's what are they and how do i fix it, i
cannot
use my word because of them being everywhere, dont know if i have
activated
something accidently to cause this or what
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