dotnet academic: I accidentally touched a key or keys while typing an email message, when
suddenly everything I type (including my preset signature) shows little
symbols & dots - ie. paragraph symbol & backwards "L") after every word or
line. How do I turn that setting off? I've tried every menu that I know of.
Warning: I'm not very computer savy in the first place. I know the

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Here is an article, posted in another group, that should help you.

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I guess you are using Word as E-mail editor. What you are seeing are
paragraph marks (soft and hard returns). You should see a paragraph mark
in the toolbar somewhere and it should be checked. It's a feature to
reveal special characters so you can better see the formatting of your
document. You can choose which characters you want to see in Word by
going in the Tools menu, Options option, then View tab, and check or
uncheck the options under Formatting marks.

Alternately, you can uncheck Use Microsoft Word 2003 in Outlook's Tools
menu, Options option, Mail Format tab, under Message format
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