How to hide paragraph formatting on screen

[Colonel Biggs]

While typing several pages of text, I must have inadvertently hit some keys, because paragraph formatting signs popped up on the screen. I remember in an earlier version of Word (I'm presently using Office 2010) that one could hit something like a Control key and then a function key (e.g., F10) to remove the formatting. Nothing that I have tried has worked, however.

Could someone clue me in on the appropriate keys to hit to remove the formatting from the screen?

Thanks in advance.

Gordon
Houston, TX

[Charles Kenyon]

On the Home tab in the Paragraph group, you can click on the paragraph symbol (pillcrow). Otherwise this is Ctrl+* (Ctrl+Shift+8).

These keys must be pressed simultaneously, not sequentially.

[Colonel Biggs]

So simple even a child can do it. Evidently, I have not yet reached childhood.

Thanks for your prompt response!

Gordon

[Charles Kenyon]

Simple to do? Yes. Simple to remember, not so. You are welcome.