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August 14th, 2006, 11:22 PM
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How do I get rid of this...?
I was trying to get rid of this double backward P sign (meant for paragraphs
I'm assuming) It appears everytime I press enter/start new paragraph... I've fixed this on my friends computer with a click of a button, but I CANNOT FIND the button in mine...I looked through the add new buttons under the same section that button is supposed to be in, but it's not there.. my friend told me the shortcut is ctrl+shift+* but it doesn't work for me. my version is Office XP Standard... Someone please help me! -Thank you 
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August 14th, 2006, 11:34 PM
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How do I get rid of this...?
If your toolbar doesn't show the paragraph symbol, go to Tools - Options -
View and clear all the items listed as Formatting Symbols. I hope that does the trick. Fred "harry" wrote: I was trying to get rid of this double backward P sign (meant for paragraphs I'm assuming) It appears everytime I press enter/start new paragraph... I've fixed this on my friends computer with a click of a button, but I CANNOT FIND the button in mine...I looked through the add new buttons under the same section that button is supposed to be in, but it's not there.. my friend told me the shortcut is ctrl+shift+* but it doesn't work for me. my version is Office XP Standard... Someone please help me! -Thank you
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August 14th, 2006, 11:35 PM
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How do I get rid of this...?
The symbol (it's not a sign) is called a pilcrow. You should have a button
with that symbol on the Standard toolbar, clicking which toggles the display of paragraph marks and some other non-printing characters. Reset the toolbar if it's missing. You can also use Tools Options: look at the checkboxes under 'Formatting marks'. "harry" wrote in message ... I was trying to get rid of this double backward P sign (meant for paragraphs I'm assuming) It appears everytime I press enter/start new paragraph... I've fixed this on my friends computer with a click of a button, but I CANNOT FIND the button in mine...I looked through the add new buttons under the same section that button is supposed to be in, but it's not there.. my friend told me the shortcut is ctrl+shift+* but it doesn't work for me. my version is Office XP Standard... Someone please help me! -Thank you
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August 15th, 2006, 01:17 AM
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How do I get rid of this...?
Thank you~ although it wasn't under tools-option... but I sorta understood
what you meant and looked under View "Idaho Word Man" wrote: If your toolbar doesn't show the paragraph symbol, go to Tools - Options - View and clear all the items listed as Formatting Symbols. I hope that does the trick. Fred "harry" wrote: I was trying to get rid of this double backward P sign (meant for paragraphs I'm assuming) It appears everytime I press enter/start new paragraph... I've fixed this on my friends computer with a click of a button, but I CANNOT FIND the button in mine...I looked through the add new buttons under the same section that button is supposed to be in, but it's not there.. my friend told me the shortcut is ctrl+shift+* but it doesn't work for me. my version is Office XP Standard... Someone please help me! -Thank you
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August 15th, 2006, 03:23 AM
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How do I get rid of this...?
It's on the View tab of Tools | Options. See also
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. I don't know why Ctrl+* wouldn't work, though, unless you've assigned that shortcut to a different command. Are you sure you're using Word and not, perhaps, WordPerfect or some other word processor? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "harry" wrote in message ... Thank you~ although it wasn't under tools-option... but I sorta understood what you meant and looked under View "Idaho Word Man" wrote: If your toolbar doesn't show the paragraph symbol, go to Tools - Options - View and clear all the items listed as Formatting Symbols. I hope that does the trick. Fred "harry" wrote: I was trying to get rid of this double backward P sign (meant for paragraphs I'm assuming) It appears everytime I press enter/start new paragraph... I've fixed this on my friends computer with a click of a button, but I CANNOT FIND the button in mine...I looked through the add new buttons under the same section that button is supposed to be in, but it's not there.. my friend told me the shortcut is ctrl+shift+* but it doesn't work for me. my version is Office XP Standard... Someone please help me! -Thank you
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August 15th, 2006, 03:53 AM
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How do I get rid of this...?
Hi Suzanne,
I don't know why Ctrl+* wouldn't work maybe because of a localized keyboard layout? For a german layout it would be [ctrl (]. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"
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August 15th, 2006, 05:41 AM
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How do I get rid of this...?
My understanding was that Ctrl+* would work on any layout, which is why I
state it as Ctrl+* rather than as Ctrl+Shift+8, which is what it is on my keyboard (but asterisk is not shifted eight on all keyboards). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Helmut Weber" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, I don't know why Ctrl+* wouldn't work maybe because of a localized keyboard layout? For a german layout it would be [ctrl (]. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"
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