How do I turn off those little paragraph symbols?

[Hank]

Tose little paragraph symbols showed up all of a sudden at every point where
I had hit the enter button; which, of course, completely messes up the
formatting of my work?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I can't see how it would completely mess up the formatting! See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm