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Nonprinting characters

Anonymous
2016-03-21T17:22:00+00:00

On the latest Mac Word 2016 version 15.20 no matter what I do to the toggle nonprinting characters on or off they are still displayed when on screen no matter what I do. Is this a bug as it worked ok before I updated to 15.20 or can I reset it somehow?

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Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP 436K Reputation points
2016-03-21T20:30:05+00:00

Go to Word> Preferences - View, clear all of the checks for Nonprinting characters. For some reason it appears that the update checks them all which causes them to display persistently.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-03-25T10:30:25+00:00

    Thanks. That does the trick.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-21T20:35:22+00:00

    Brilliant thanks for that! Was driving me mad!

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