Cannot get rid of margin brackets in page view

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Carol B - 26 Jan 2004 17:34 GMT

Out of the blue, light gray margin brackets now appear on
all my documents in page view. These brackets are at
each corner of the document, look like this: "L" and line
up with the actual page margins. I went through the
tools/options menu looking for this setting so I can turn
it off, but I can't find it. Any ideas? Thanks! ~Carol

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Jon Weaver - 26 Jan 2004 17:53 GMT

Carol,

You need to turn off the text boundaries option:
On the Tools menu, click Options
Select the View tab
Make sure the Text boundaries checkbox has been cleared (click it)
Click OK

Jon

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Carol B - 26 Jan 2004 21:02 GMT

Hi Jon, I checked this out and the text boundaries
checkbox was not checked. When I checked the checkbox,
just for grins, it displayed an entire box on the
document (where the margins are). The original issue is
a little L-shaped "bracket" in each corner of the page,
in light gray, that corresponds to where the margins are
placed.

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Beth Melton - 26 Jan 2004 21:05 GMT

Hi Carol,

This is caused by using Asian/Far East language support.

If you do not need this language support you can turn it off under
Start/Programs/Microsoft Office Tools/Language Settings.

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Carol B - 26 Jan 2004 23:56 GMT

Hi Beth,

Thanks for your advice, it worked perfectly and the
brackets are gone! ~Carol

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