[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS.  Size indeed matters not.] I see dots and arrows in my document .... - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Mon, Nov 20 2006 22:13 bradley

I see dots and arrows in my document ....

"Do you know Office?"

Well not as well as our Secretaries...

"Well I have a paragraph mark on a Word document and can't figure out how to turn it off!"

The Wordgurus always leave that little paragraph icon on.. and quite honestly I find it annoying..

I see dots and arrows in my document

Symptoms

In your document, you see dots where there should be spaces, arrows where there should be tabs, and other characters that you don't expect.

Cause

These symbols are visible when you show the formatting marks in Word.

Resolution

Hide the formatting marks.

  • On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Show/Hide.

What? Don't know what that is?  It looks like this:

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# re: I see dots and arrows in my document ....

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:13 PM by indy

1997 called, it wants it's MSKB articles back.