What the heck? (MS Publisher question)

[madamesilverspurs]

Last edited Sat Jan 4, 2020, 06:09 PM - Edit history (1)

Wrote some stuff in Publisher last night, all was fine. Today, this is what happens when I try to write:



Any ideas about what's happened to cause this? Can I fix it?

gahhhhhh…………

UPDATE: First, thanks for the responses. Just started going through the various function headers; under VIEW there was one called "special characters" that was highlighted, clicked on it and the problem resolved. Don't recall ever selecting that, just glad it went away.

I need more coffee. Or less...
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[Cartoonist]

1. You accidentally clicked on a function

Now you have to find out what it was and un-click it. Probably under edit or format.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Why is what happening? That looks a typical text box to me. What is different?

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Hello? Is there a response from the OP?

[msongs]

3. surprised to hear that program is still around nt

[sl8]

4. Are you talking about the characters shown for spaces, carriage returns, etc?

Last edited Sun Jan 5, 2020, 05:17 AM - Edit history (1)

Maybe this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/show-formatting-marks/2b01db63-07a3-494d-90cf-06f89756ed48

If not, you can probably find it in the help menu, probably under "display" and/or "format".

I don't use Publisher, but might I suggest that you try it that way for a while? The strangeness will fade very quickly, and it is useful info.

[UTUSN]

5. I use Publisher a lot, but few features. Thanks for finding that one, it's useful!

Of all the stuff that's available in Publisher, all I use are the Blank pages, mostly the standard 8 1/2 and the 4x6 - almost exclusively for Pasting, Editing and Saving pictures. I never dig into the various functions (your View), but in the few other basic programs (Word, Outlook, gmail) I have often wanted that feature that you were troubled about, to tell me the lines and spaces.

In your o.p., I didn't know what was "wrong" since I like that feature!1 Thanks for educating me on where to find it!1