Forum Discussion
Hash marks dim in Word ruler
Neither of the options highlighted in yellow in your screen shots show up for me when I hit Reply.
Dan_Purkey Are you really sure that when you click on Reply, you do not see the Open full text editor link below the box containing "Enter reply text" as shown below?
It won't be highlighted in yellow as I added the highlighting in the hope of guiding you to it.
- Hi, Doug. I tried recalibrating, also. Any other people you could involve to take a whack at it? Looks like this route has reached the end.
- The hash marks are never that visible. However, you may be able to make them more prominent by re-calibrating your monitor(s) via the Windows>Settings>Display.
- Well, I don't know where to go from here. The Microsoft tech in the chat saw the issue on a shared screen, so I'm not imagining it. Thoughts?
Dan_Purkey Yes, the hash marks are visible in the ruler for all pages when viewed in single page mode.
- Yes, I see that the hash marks are visible on both sides when viewed side-by-side. I set View to side-to-side on my computer and got the same result. However, when View is set to a single, vertical page (which is my vastly preferred way to work), the issue still appears on every other page. When you view the doc in the single, vertical page mode, do you see the issue?
Dan_Purkey The attached video show the behavior here.
Yes, I was sure. However, I tried it on this one and it worked. I'll not discount the possibility of an OE85 error - Operator Error 85% of the time. ;o)
The file for you to examine is attached. As an FYI, the Microsoft tech I chatted with did see the issue I described. However, when I took screen shots of the situation, in both the odd and even pages, the hash marks were clear, even though when looking at them in real time, they were so dim as to be almost invisible. Thanks, Doug, for hanging in there with me. Hopefully this gives you some meat to work with.