Help !.... Funny symbols appeared in Word

[SpikieMikie]

Hi..

I was typing happily away in Word, when up shot a dancing paperclip with a message about paragraph formatting, and now I've got funny little symbols at the start of each line of text that looks like a backward P....

Can anyone tell me how I get rid of it and go back to just seeing my text...

Many thanks...
Mike

[squarebear]

Somewhere on your toolbars or menu options is the same backwards P. Click on it and normality will be resumed.

[SpikieMikie]

Thanks for that, I will have a look.... what are they ?

[squarebear]

It's to show you where the paragraphs start and end I think. Not a great deal of use.

[billbo]

On the tool bar the icon to the left of the 'Zoom' 100% box is the reverse p symbol. Click on that and the page will return to normal.

A use for the symbol is when a document/letter finishes on the screen before the bottom of the page, but at the bottom left corner it shows page 1 of 2 for no apparent reason.

Then click on the symbol and the rev p will return to the screen. and will be going down into page 2. Click on the 'p' on page 2 and highlight to page 1, press delete and you will have page 1 of 1. click on the symbol again and it will return to normal with just the one page for printing.

[ACtheTROLL]

look at the toolbars under the menu - far right is the view contol (will say something like 100%)
by default the banjo is just to the left

failing that

tools | options | view | formatting marks
left column .... last option paragraph marks .... take the tick out.

[Jugglering]

That symbol is simply showing where you have placed the carriage returns.... (which you press to force your text onto a new line)... You have managed to turn on the *show carriage return* by accidentally clicking on it (it's on the "Standard" toolbar, over on the right hand side at the top of your monitor). It will also display spaces and tabs. I actually prefer to have it switched on (it's just a toggle) so that I can see where my tabs and spaces are.

It's all derived from them thar olden days when typists used manual typewriters and at the end of typing a line of text on a piece of paper, they would have to manually return the carriage which held the piece of paper - the keys stayed in the same place, it was the platen carriage assembly that moved .... Similarly, tabs were preset amounts that the platen jumped (a definite number of spaces each time) so that type could be lined up row by row.

See what useless information some of us have in our brains :)