This feature is useful for when you need to see if there’s a paragraph on an empty page in a document or when you need to clean up your document as simply selecting the P symbol corresponding to a paragraph and deleting it deletes the entire paragraph, but many users end up not being able to get rid of the paragraph symbols once they have Word display them. While paragraph symbols can be a huge help in some instances, under normal circumstances they only make a document harder to read as they make text appear unnecessarily busy. Thankfully, though, getting rid of paragraph symbols after having Word display them is easy enough. The following are the two methods you can go about getting rid of paragraph symbols after you have Word display them:
Method 1: Use the Show/Hide paragraph symbols button in the toolbar
Located in Microsoft Word’s toolbar is a Show/Hide paragraph symbols button which can be used to have Word display or hide not only paragraph symbols but also most other formatting symbols used by Word (from symbols used for spaces and lines to those used for page breaks and Tab breaks). This method is the simplest method you can use to get rid of paragraph symbols in Word: As soon as you click on the button, if Word was configured to show paragraph symbols, it will hide them. While this method is extremely simple and straightforward, it sometimes doesn’t work for users, especially for those who only have Word display paragraph symbols and hide all other formatting symbols used by the word processor.
Method 2: Get rid of paragraph symbols from Word Options
If Method 1 doesn’t work for you for whatever reason, you can simply get rid of paragraph symbols from Word Options. To do so, you need to:
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