how do I remove paragraph icons

[Marilyn]

I don't know what I did wrong,but all the formatting icons are appearing in
my text. How do I get rid of them?

 

[Jezebel]

Click the ¶ button on the formatting toolbar. But leave them on for a while
first: they're actually very useful.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm