Anyone good with Word?

[Crothian]

This seems like a silly question as I'm not bad with the program myself. A few months back I got a new version of word and there seems to be some default on that I can't find how to turn off. On the screen (but they are not there when printed) I get symbols for every key stroke. I get something each time I hit enter for a blank line, an arrow showing when I've tabbed, a little dot in between each word to show there is a space there.

And on a possible unrelated note everything looks like it is double spaced even when printed. I did fine that and it is on single space but it looks like double space. These are not huge issues, I can ignore them easily enough and they don't interfere with anything I'm doing. But I feel like I'm missing something obvious and I hate that.

 

[Goobermunch]

"As you're typing your document, you may occasionally want to check whether you accidentally pressed Enter at the end of a line within a paragraph, or pressed Enter too many times between paragraphs. Or, maybe you think you may have pressed the Tab key one time too many, or typed an extra space between two words. You can use Word's Show/Hide feature to solve these mysteries. To turn it on, click the Show/Hide button on the Formatting toolbar (or press Ctrl+Shift+*). This is a toggle button, meaning that you click it once to turn it on, and again when you want to turn it off"

From http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=98150.

I think that will fix it for you.

--G

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Sounds like the formatting marks are set to be viewable? Look under Tools>Options>View tab>Formatting marks. I'm guessing something is going to be checked in there. I'm not sure how to resolve the double spacing...

EDIT: Look under Format>Paragraph>Spacing and see if you're set at Line Spacing=Single Line. If that says "Double" or something other than "single" that may be the cause of the double spacing.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Goobermuch's suggestion is probably the better (and more likely) one for your first issue!

 

[Crothian]

"As you're typing your document, you may occasionally want to check whether you accidentally pressed Enter at the end of a line within a paragraph, or pressed Enter too many times between paragraphs. Or, maybe you think you may have pressed the Tab key one time too many, or typed an extra space between two words. You can use Word's Show/Hide feature to solve these mysteries. To turn it on, click the Show/Hide button on the Formatting toolbar (or press Ctrl+Shift+*). This is a toggle button, meaning that you click it once to turn it on, and again when you want to turn it off"

From http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=98150.

I think that will fix it for you.

--G

Thank you!! That did it!!

 

[Goobermunch]

My pleasure. Word's "help"-less function wasn't, so I asked the great god of the Intarwebs, and its Avatar, Google, found it for me. Every once and a while, I'll get a document from someone at work with that option on. For some reason, once that's done, it resets my Word to use that as a default.

--G

 

[ssampier]

And it seems like I mostly have trouble with zoom resetting itself. I get used to one zoom level and it resets itself to something else.

 

[Thanee]

Goodness, that's one of the best features of Word, and you didn't know about it?

Really, it's so helpful to see those formatting symbols in the text when you do precision editing.

Bye
Thanee

 

[maransreth]

And it seems like I mostly have trouble with zoom resetting itself. I get used to one zoom level and it resets itself to something else.

It could be the files you are working with. A zoom is inherent with the file.

This is noticable at my work where I like to work in 100%, whereas my colleagues work in Page Width which is usually 147%. So I open one of their Word docs and lo and behold - 147%. Whereas with my docs stored locally I never have a problem.

 

[ssampier]

Interesting. I thought zoom was a standard setting regardless of document. Learn something new everyday.

As for the Office at work; we have Office 2007. Our trainers love it; I'm having trouble getting used to it.