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Hide Paragraph Marks in Outlook 2007

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Another strange thing happened when I upgraded from MS Office 2003 to 2007. When I compose an email, paragraph marks show up all over the page. I find them very distracting and not particularly useful. (I used to use them back when WordPerfect was the dominant word processor, but that was because it sometimes helped to “reveal codes” in WordPerfect if the formatting of the page was going screwy — which it often did.)

Anyway, to get rid of these codes, open a new message and click on the Office orb (the circular thingy at the top left of the page that used to be the “File” menu). Click on the “Editor Options” button on the bottom right. Click on “Display”. From there you should be able to toggle the paragraph marker settings off.

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81 responses to “Hide Paragraph Marks in Outlook 2007”

  1. Eric

    Solid. Thank you for the tip!

  2. Joaquin

    Thanks, I could finally get rid of these useless? symbols

    Regards

  3. Pam

    Thank you…this was very helpful!

  4. kayt smith

    Finally! Something that worked.
    Thanks so much!!

  5. JL T

    This is the most reliable sourced! Also untick “show all formating mark”

    Cheers

  6. Pat

    Great thank you for the help!

  7. Prashant

    Thanx, saved me a lot of time.

  8. BC

    Finally, is right. This worked perfectly after so many other attempts. Thank you for posting.

  9. Aaron

    Thank you for posting this; those marks were driving me crazy!

  10. sharon

    Thank you!!!

  11. Gerard

    Many thanks

  12. Daniel

    You can also do Ctrl+Shift+8 to get rid of them…very annoying indeed!

  13. megan

    thank you!

  14. Mike

    CTRL+SHIFT+*
    you have to use the * on main keyboard, not the numeric. I tell people it is CTRL+SHIFT+8 and they fix it

  15. Monty

    When I Click on the “Editor Options” button on the bottom right. Click on “Display”. From there you should be able to toggle the paragraph marker settings off. The next new email created it come back ? Any other suggestions

  16. Rita

    Thank you!!!!! It was driving me mad!!!

  17. David

    excellent tip…..thnx shaney

  18. Davi

    great! thx so much… regards from Brazil

  19. amk

    you rock!

  20. Anita

    Thanks much.. It was quick.. and easy to get rid of it !!!!!!!

  21. Melissa

    OMG! Thank you, that has been driving me nuts for months!

  22. jun

    thank you very much..this is soo helpful

  23. Jules

    The paragraph markers became active in an email I was drafting after I copied text from another source and added the open quote before the text. Something in the formatting of the original copied text in combination with the open quote caused the activation of the paragraph markers. Thanks for the tip on how to turn it off!

  24. Laura

    Thank you!! I don’t even know how I turned them on.

  25. Fred

    A fix that fixed… Love it…!

  26. TNT

    That worked- really appreciate your help :)

  27. Lowry

    Thanks a bundle. Have no idea why suddenly my Outlook did this!

  28. James

    I copied a table into an Email and all of al sudden the paragraph marks showed up all over the place. They are very annoying. Thank you for your steps to remove them.
    They are gone – for now.

  29. Jack Northrup

    Thank you very much.That has been a pain for almost two years

  30. HD Geo

    These tricks work. But on just one user in my office, it keeps coming back again and again, no matter how many different ways we turn it off.

    Even tried deleting and reloading the local mail profile. Also tried the trick of going into C:\Users(user)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates and deleting the .dotm files. Still comes back every time.

    Haven’t seen any posts from anyone with that wrinkle.

    Anybody know how to turn it off permanently and make it stick?

  31. frustrated MSoutlook user

    WORKED! Thank you!!

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