Formatting Styles

[Mythtery]

Not sure if this is the right place...My son has messed up my Microsoft Word
somehow, and I have tried everything I know to correct it. It comes up by
default showing the paragraph symbol and other punctuation marks. If I
unclick the Paragraph button on the tool bar all of the typing disappears.
If he tries to print, it only prints blank pages. I spent a whole night
awhile back and thought I had gotten the styles/formats back to normal, but
it has somehow reverted back. Even when I could change things, I still
couldn't get the blinking cursor to appear. Is there anything I can try
short of uninstalling Office and reinstalling???

Mythtery

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Sounds like he accidentally formatted the text in your Normal doc as Hidden,
the ¶ on the toolbar controls the paragraph symbol, etc, and also Hidden
text. You can change Tools | Options, Print to print Hidden Text, that may
have been your temporary fix.

However, to fix it entirely, this page will let you get your new blank
documents back to normal.

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm

DM

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, you probably don't need to use
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm. Just go to Format
| Font, remove the check from the Hidden box, and click the Default...
button.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Oops, sorry about the overkill remedy...

DM

Actually, you probably don't need to use
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm. Just go to Format
| Font, remove the check from the Hidden box, and click the Default...
button.