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Old 06-18-2014, 10:14 AM
eliars eliars is offline HELP: Weird symbols popping up in Word Windows 7 64bit HELP: Weird symbols popping up in Word Office 2007
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Day before my exam. Writing/re-writing notes in Word.



I want to copy paste something and then all of a sudden these weird symbols pop up in my document and then spread to all of my word documents.


They look like this:
http://postimg.org/image/lamjvjeup/

What do I do to remove them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance

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If you mean the dots between words and the ¶ at the end of the paragraph, these are entirely harmless – you have activated the display of non-printing characters. I don't know how to do this in 2007; try Ctrl + 8?
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The formatting display can be toggled on/off by clicking on the ¶ symbol on the Ribbon's Home tab.
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Another alternative is Ctrl+* (Ctrl+Shift+8).
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