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BitchKimmPossible - 28 Jul 2004 22:56 GMT

I am using a table in microsoft word (Office XP) for
some reason there appeared in each cell of my table a
symbol It looks like a small circle inside of a small
square. Does anyone know what this symbol means? Or how
I can get it outta my table? Thanks for any help

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garfield-n-odie - 28 Jul 2004 23:17 GMT

Interesting choice of anonym! ;-) What you're seeing is the table end-of-cell mark. The mark doesn't print, but AFAIK there is no way to turn off display of the end-of-cell mark in a table.

> I am using a table in microsoft word (Office XP) for
> some reason there appeared in each cell of my table a
> symbol It looks like a small circle inside of a small
> square. Does anyone know what this symbol means? Or how
> I can get it outta my table? Thanks for any help

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Greg Maxey - 28 Jul 2004 23:26 GMT

There is always the option to toggle off the display of non-printing
characters CTRL+Shift+*

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> Interesting choice of anonym! ;-) What you're seeing is the table
> end-of-cell mark. The mark doesn't print, but AFAIK there is no way
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>> square. Does anyone know what this symbol means? Or how
>> I can get it outta my table? Thanks for any help

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garfield-n-odie - 28 Jul 2004 23:45 GMT

Hi, Greg. I just tried that, and it doesn't turn off the table
end-of-cell mark.

> There is always the option to toggle off the display of non-printing
> characters CTRL+Shift+*

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Chad DeMeyer - 29 Jul 2004 00:09 GMT

In Tools>Options>View, there are (at least in my version) 6 choices for
viewing of formatting (non-printing) characters. If either 'Paragraph
marks' or 'All' is checked, end-of-cell and end-of-row markers will display.
So if you had everything checked on the View tab rather than just All, and
did CTRL+Shift+* (or clicked the toolbar button), you would still see these
because that command only toggles the 'All' setting without affecting the
other five.

Regards,
Chad

> Hi, Greg. I just tried that, and it doesn't turn off the table
> end-of-cell mark.
>
> > There is always the option to toggle off the display of non-printing
> > characters CTRL+Shift+*

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Greg Maxey - 29 Jul 2004 00:15 GMT

gno,

Do your pilcrow (paragraph marks) toggle off when you CTRL+Shift+* ? If no,
Tools>Options>View>Formatting Marks and uncheck "Paragraph marks." End of
cell markers display is also dependent on this setting.

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> Hi, Greg. I just tried that, and it doesn't turn off the table
> end-of-cell mark.
>
>> There is always the option to toggle off the display of non-printing
>> characters CTRL+Shift+*

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garfield-n-odie - 29 Jul 2004 10:11 GMT

Hi, Greg. You guessed it... I always run with spaces, tabs, and
paragraph marks visible, so Ctrl+Shift+* doesn't turn off the
end-of-cell marks for me. I didn't realize the paragraph marks were
related to the end-of-cell marks, but it does make sense now that you
mention it.

> gno,
>
> Do your pilcrow (paragraph marks) toggle off when you CTRL+Shift+* ? If no,
> Tools>Options>View>Formatting Marks and uncheck "Paragraph marks." End of
> cell markers display is also dependent on this setting.

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Pat Garard - 29 Jul 2004 09:05 GMT

G'Day BitchKimmPossible,

Acknowledgements to previous contributors.....

In summary (for now):
Tools > Options
View (Tab)
Formatting marks (Section half-way down)
Tab characters UNcheck
Spaces UNcheck
Paragraph Marks UNcheck
Hidden Text UNcheck
Optional hyphens UNcheck
All CHECK

Use CTRL+*, which is the same as CTRL+SHIFT+8, to
turn all these ON or OFF.

You can also use the "?" button on the Standard toolbar.

Later on you can change the check boxes to taste.

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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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