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If you special symbols showing up at the end of each paragraph, they are called formatting symbols (also called formatting marks). Formatting symbols are hidden by default. You can display them by pressing Ctrl-. or clicking the formatting symbol icon in the 'Paragraph' group of the Home tab. Displaying formatting symbols helps you to understand how each part is being formatted. Here is a list of those formatting symbols or marks and their meanings.

1. Word Formatting Mark List
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3. Format Marks In Word 2010

1. Click the File tab at the top-left corner of the window. Click the Options button in the column at the left side of the window. Click Display in the column at the left side of the Word Options window. Scroll down to the Always show these formatting marks on the screen section, then check the box to the left of Show all formatting marks.
2. The simplest way to copy format from one character, word, paragraph, or other element in Microsoft Word, is to use the Format Painter button (on the Home tab, in the Clipboard group) or to use shortcuts (see How to copy format easy and quickly). But there is some trick how to copy font, indentation, etc. For elements such as paragraph or numbering and keep existing formatting inside the text.

How to turn off or show hide formatting marks or characters in Outlook?

You might see there are a lot of special symbols appearing on your text body when composing an email message. They’re formatting marks. Sometimes you are fed up with these visible marks and want to turn them off or just hide them. What should you do? With this tutorial, turning off or hiding formatting marks won’t be a problem anymore.

Temporally show hide formatting marks or characters in Outlook

You can temporally hide formatting marks as follows.

1. Go to Format Text tab in the new email dialog, and then click on the Show/Hide button in the Paragraph group. See screenshot:

2. After clicking the Show/Hide button, all formatting marks are disappeared from the email body.

Notes:

1. If you want to show all formatting marks, please click the Show/Hide button again.

2. The Show/Hide button won’t work if the following formatting marks boxes are checked. See screenshot:

Permanently turn off formatting marks or characters in Outlook

If you want to permanently turn off all the formatting marks, you can do it as follows.

1. In the new composing message window, click File > Options. See screenshot:

2. In the Outlook Options dialog, click Mail in the left section, and then click Editor Options… under Compose messages in the right section.

3. When the Editor Options dialog pops up, click Display in the left section. In the right section and under Always show these formatting marks on the screen, uncheck all boxes, and then click OK twice to finish the whole setting.

4. Now when you open the new email composing dialog, the formatting marks won’t appear anymore.

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• GOT IT!!
  File > Options > Mail > Stationery and Fonts > (Under New mail messegaes) Font.. > uncheck (Hidden).
  go to your mail, New Email, if you still find the paragraph mark still enabled, uncheck it, then close message, open New Email again and thank me later :D

  • Thanks man,
    It's easy and done.
    I'm posting this with screenshots for easy understanding
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  These users are right. I was barely able to turn off in new email but the reply for every different email from different persons as soon as I start typing it shows off the backward 'P.'
  Please assist.
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  I've tried this several times and the formatting marks still appear in new emails.

  • Well, fourth time is not a charm. Went back in. None of the options for unchecking formatting appears anymore. I am seeing the show/hide feature. This is maddening!!
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    This is my third comment, so hopefully this works this time. Go Options, Mail, change format to rich text, then select Editor Options. In the box that states, 'Always show these formatting marks on screen', make sure that 'Show All Formatting Marks' is unchecked. I hope this works. The formatting marks showed up for me after I changed my signature. It is like everything went haywire!
  • To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
    I got as far as 'Editor Options.' There is no 'Display,' to click on in the left section . I read through whatever showed up on the screen. Nothing I looked through what was applicable to what I needed! Also, extendoffice.com needs to remove information boxes to the right that gets in the way of reading instructions. G, f, Tweet, Print and + are in the way on the left side of the page unless we want to continue to use the scroll up and down arrow to the right which takes us away from focusing on what we are reading. Sooo, I guess, even if I was able to get to the rest of their instructions, I would have been stuck in the same place the both of you complained about. Monica, Alain, are we stupid, or are the instructions not accurate!
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    I have the same issue. And no matter what I do, I unchecked all boxes but the Pilcrow characters, every time I start a new email or reply. I can turn it off for each session, but who ever created this problem where it wont turn off. I want to kill the person who made this problem.

    • This solution worked for me in Outlook 2010:
      compose new email => format text => paragraph => asian typography => options => display tab => uncheck all boxes
      Hope it helps.

How to show or hide formatting marks in Word?

There are many formatting marks in Word document, such as tab characters, spaces, paragraph marks, hidden text, optional hyphens, object anchors, optional breaks and so on. Some of them are shown and some of them are hidden by default. Follow this tutorial to learn how to show or hide them in Word.

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Show or hide formatting marks in Word 2003

Step 1: click Tools menu > click Options

Step 2: click View tab, check any formatting marks in Formatting marks section to show them in document, or you can check All item to show all kinds of formatting marks in document.

The keyboard shortcut of showing all formatting marks: Ctrl+* or Shift+Ctrl+8

Word Formatting Mark List

Show or hide formatting marks in Word 2007/2010/2013

Step 1:

click Officeicon and then click Word Options in Word 2007;

click Filetab and then click Options in Word 2010/2013.

Step 2: click Display, in Always show these formatting marks on the screen section, check to show them in documents or you can check Show all formatting marks to show all formatting marks in document.

Note: If you want to show or hide all formatting marks, you can click under Home tab, or you can press shortcut Ctrl+* to switch showing or hiding.

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1. Please apply the utility by clicking Enterprise > Display Settings in View group, see screenshot:

2. Check the formatting marks you want to show in the Formatting Marks section, or hide them by unchecking. See screenshot:

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Format Marks In Word 2010

• [quote name='Gary Ouellet']I have lines in my documents which I cannot remove. I tried using see formatting marks, but these do not show so that I can remove the lines. What is there to be done to get rid of these lines.[/quote]
  [quote name='Sachin']i m using word 2010. i have one table of word doc. in word doc i can't edit any word because in table showing I (green color) type word. & i cant edit in word doc. please send me solution as soon as possible.[/quote]
  I am trying to remove format lines from my document as stted by 'Gary Ouellet'
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  I have lines in my documents which I cannot remove. I tried using see formatting marks, but these do not show so that I can remove the lines. What is there to be done to get rid of these lines.
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  paragramaph marks box automatically selects or what it was embarrasing finally I opened the Tools , Options click on view button go to formatting marks uncheck the paragraph marks box cliock O.K. that will do
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  Sachin,
  Can you explain more what you are saying, and if possible, link to a screen capture of your problem?
  Thanks
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  i m using word 2010. i have one table of word doc. in word doc i can't edit any word because in table showing I (green color) type word. & i cant edit in word doc. please send me solution as soon as possible.