Re: Appearance of square brackets within text

I'm pretty sure this just toggles the display of bookmarks in that dialog,
not in the text. I just looked at a document with a TOC (and consequently
bookmarks created by Word). With that box checked and the View option
checked, I see *no* bookmarks in the document.

What is even stranger, though, is that display of bookmarks must be
per-document. I checked the View option for that specific document, checked
the display, closed the document, then went back to Options to uncheck it
and found it unchecked. Fearing that I might have clicked Cancel rather than
OK after checking the box, I reopened the document, went to Options, and
found it checked. That is, checked for that specific document and not for
any other--one more of the View Options that appear to be application-wide
that are in fact document-specific. <sigh> Is this made clearer in Word
2007?


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<terryfarrell@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can toggle Bookmark View on/off independently (of hidden items) under
Tools,Options, View tab.

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But the bookmarks Word creates are always "hidden" and don't show the
brackets.

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"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Cross-references and tables of contents create bookmarks at the points
they
refer to. That's probably where those came from.

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Nick wrote:
Problem solved. Thanks very much.

As far as I know, I have never intentionally created any bookmarks.Is
it something that can be done accidentally?

Nick

"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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They're bookmarks. You can turn the display of them on or off in the
Tools > Options > View dialog.

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Nick wrote:
I am using Word 2003 with XP Home.

I have been working on some medium sized documents (400 to 500K)
and
I have found grey square brackets ([ ]) showing up in the text
above
where I am writing. They do not declare themselves using the show
punctuation button, and I can not delete them. They do not appear
on
the printed output.

Probably an easy one, but I don't understand. Thanks, Nick






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