Dots in spaces between words, figure at end of each sentence?

[Dejola]

A friend who is new to Word was, as she says below, typing away in a
Word document and experienced the following (see her message to me
below):

"I was typing away and hit something that inserted period like dots
into the spaces between words and then puts a figure at the end of each
sentence and the beginning of each line. I have to click it off but I
don't know what it is...any thoughts?"

I don't know enough about Word myself, but maybe someone else here
knows what she "hit" to cause the problem.

Thanks.

John

 

[Jay Freedman]

The ¶ button on the toolbar turns those marks, and other nonprinting
characters, on and off. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[aalaan]

She toggled show non-printing characters ON. Just look on the toolbar for
the Backwards P and toggle it off.