Dots between words in Word, how do you remove them

[Tom Winfield]

Just bought a new Dell and Office Home and Student 2016, with Word, and my first document has dots between every word. Please tell me what to do to get rid of them. Must I see them? There's gotta be a way to remove them...

 

[macropod]

Those dots simply indicate how many spaces between words there are. Depending what else your document contains, you'll also see →, ↵, ¶, and ¤ symbols, indicating tabs and line/paragraph breaks and a table's end-of-cell/end-of-row marker, respectively. Simply clicking the ¶ symbol on the Ribbon's Home tab toggles the display of these symbols on/off.