Feb 12 2022 10:23 AM
In the middle of editing a Word document with Track Changes on, paragraph and indent symbols began appearing in the deleted text. Paragraph symbols were off (I never use them) in the body of the text. I have tried all the obvious things in Word, have updated my Mac OS and uninstalled then reinstalled Office. At the time, I was running an old version of Word. I now have 16.57.
The only thing I did differently from normal in my use of Word was to use the ^ symbol. I got it both by (command i) and (shift 6). I sometimes accidentally typed another symbol eg ' alongside it.
I would very much appreciate help with this.
Feb 12 2022 05:15 PM
Feb 13 2022 05:57 AM
@Doug_Robbins_Word_MVPThanks for the suggestion. Sadly, I have checked this (repeatedly, actually). I have it always set to off as I never want paragraph marks.
Feb 13 2022 01:25 PM
Feb 14 2022 02:02 AM
Feb 14 2022 09:55 AM
To upload a document, you will have to open the Reply in a separate window and then you can make use of the "Drag and drop here or browse files to attach" link below the reply field.
Feb 15 2022 01:57 AM
Thank you@Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
Feb 15 2022 02:36 AM
@AnneHY The revision is showing what actually happened. When it is an empty paragraph that is deleted, that is shown in the revisions as "Deleted: ¶"
In the original document, there were two empty paragraphs between the paragraphs that contain text shown below
and one of them was deleted
Feb 15 2022 02:44 AM
Feb 15 2022 10:05 PM
@AnneHY The Pilcrow symbol shows as what was deleted to indicate that it was an empty paragraph, or some text including the end of the paragraph was deleted so that two paragraphs become one.
In the following example, if the shaded text that spans from one paragraph into the next is deleted
so that the two paragraphs become one, the pilcrow symbol is included in the representation of the deleted text to signify that the text that was deleted was originally part of two paragraphs
Feb 17 2022 08:25 AM
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Feb 18 2022 06:47 AM
Feb 18 2022 02:46 PM - edited Feb 18 2022 02:48 PM
@AnneHY It is NOT a glitch or a malfunction! When the revision involves deleting a paragraph, or the end part of paragraph so that the remaining text is merged with the next paragraph, word has ALWAYS shown the pilcrow representing the end of the paragraph that was deleted in the balloon. Here is a screen shot from Word 2003
Feb 19 2022 10:13 AM