Hi Bob

The short answer is no, you can't do this. If you really want to send a document such that you control exactly how it looks, you
might consider creating a PDF file and sending that. Alternatively, you could put a macro in the document that turns off the display
of non-printing characters. But if you do that, (a) users will get a macro warning and (b) users who want to see non-printing
characters will be *very* cross that you messed with their setup! Bear in mind that people who like to see non-printing characters
will expect to see them, and because they're used to seeing them, they find reading a Word document without them to be quite
peculiar.

So the solutions are either PDF or don't worry about it.

Shauna Kelly.  Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia