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Comment from Shveta Vijesh on 2011-02-03

2011-02-04T00:43:39Z

Thank you for your post Leo. It was the simple Shift+Ctrl+* that solved it for me. saved me so much trouble!
Cheers,
Shveta

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Comment from Gail on 2010-11-02

2010-11-02T12:47:05Z

THANK YOU! I had been searching for icons in my C drive and somehow hit those buttons. The control/shift* is the one that fixed things for me. It was my company email that I had the problem with, so I thank you twice! THANK YOU! Gail

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Comment from Joanne Miao on 2010-02-04

2010-02-04T22:07:09Z

I have o between each character or when I hit space bar, it shews "o", I tried shift+ctrl+* and shift+ctrl+8, no fix, please help

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Comment from Jodi on 2009-11-12

2009-11-12T14:58:16Z

Thanks very much. I didn't like using word as the editor but didn't know how to turn it off. My marks are gone!!! YAY!

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Comment from the HERM on 2009-11-10

2009-11-10T17:42:06Z

thanks ... you are the place to look for quick answers. Like I would ever guess to hit shift+ctrl+* ... and how on earth did I do that to start with.

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Comment from John on 2009-09-09

2009-09-09T15:19:39Z

Legend, Cheers Leo.

that quick fix Ctrl+Shift+* just saved me a ton of trouble.

Johnnyg.

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Comment from Scott Jay on 2009-06-05

2009-06-05T21:51:20Z

I have the same problem but showing paragraph marks is NOT checked in Word. Can you tell me any other method to get rid of the paragraph marks? This problem started yesterday when I tried to copy and paste a screen shot from the Broward County (Florida) Clerk of the Court's Office into an email.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

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Comment from Ingrid on 2009-04-26

2009-04-27T03:43:07Z

Awesome tip. Thanks heaps as I could not get rid of the paragraph mark in MS Outlook. Help was no help!.

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Comment from Hayley on 2009-04-17

2009-04-17T11:23:50Z

hey thanks so much for the info! was getting very annoyed with these backwards P's as i had no idea what had happened!
thanks very much

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Comment from Private viewer on 2009-03-19

2009-03-19T20:08:42Z

There are a lot of people that need help with grammar in addition to spelling. Outlook can check spelling, but not grammar. I have forced some people to use Word as their editor so it catches most of their rediculous grammar mistakes.

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Comment from rich on 2009-03-05

2009-03-05T17:04:51Z

Thank you!! I must have turned it on accidentally and didn't know how to undo it. Thank goodness my google search worked!:

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Comment from Rick Tucker on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T23:13:15Z

Thanks! c-sh-* solved my problem within a minute of encountering the issue. Frustration averted! I learn everything via "accidental keystrokes". Yesterday I learned that in Adobe Bridge I can press Space to make items selected for preview go to full screen.

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Comment from Jaz on 2008-12-09

2008-12-09T14:30:54Z

Thank You so Much!!! That was driving me carzy and the simple keystroke you provided was like a magic trick!!

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Comment from john on 2008-10-27

2008-10-27T11:58:47Z

Thank you very much! It solved my problem which was a big headache..

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Comment from Cathyg on 2008-10-14

2008-10-14T15:51:27Z

I KNEW they were Marks but I HATE HATE them...when they showed up in email probably because I am flying about the keyboard and I accidentally tripped them to start...I was going to scream! Thank you, Thank you, Thank YOU for this quick and easy way to get out! HELP was not helping at all! SHIFT+CTRL+* WOW! Bravo
Kindest Regards,
Cathyg

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Comment from Olga on 2008-08-18

2008-08-18T17:33:27Z

Thank you so very much!! Super Helpful!

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Comment from Andrew on 2008-02-27

2008-02-27T15:39:36Z

At the risk of being boringly repetitive - THANKS! And I'm ditching Word as Outlook's editor at work and at home!

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Comment from Kate on 2007-11-17

2007-11-17T21:55:51Z

THANK YOU! I had the same problem with my microsoft word, googled "backwards P" and saw your answer. Thanks!!

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Comment from Jim on 2007-09-21

2007-09-21T23:41:11Z

Hi Leo:

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GREAT ADVICE! You were right on. You possibly saved me hours of frustration.

Jim

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Comment from Kevin on 2007-05-01

2007-05-01T17:48:22Z

Actually, that didn't work. The paragraph marks were still showing in Outlook, even though they were disabled in Word 2003. The solution was to start a new email, click Tools, then Options, then the View tab and deselect the 'All' option for Formatting Marks.

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Comment from Steve Maz on 2007-02-19

2007-02-19T11:28:23Z

Excellent, thing was I knew what it was, as ive done it before, just couldnt remember. Thanks for your help ! Steve

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Comment from PAT GALLOWAY on 2006-12-19

2006-12-20T02:10:42Z

Thanks Leo, you hit the target right on. I must have accidentally hit the asterik and caused all this headache. Us old people get real frustrated when we can't figure something out. So, thanks for saving a few more gray hairs. Pat

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Comment from Rob on 2006-12-13

2006-12-13T20:18:44Z

You Rock! I was blazing out an email and must of accidentially hit the combo to cause this backwards P sh##. Thanks a million!

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-10-31

2006-11-01T00:36:31Z

You hit on one: Word generates horrible HTML. You don't see it unless you pay attention to the size of the message, or actually take steps to look at the result. If you send email to people outside your company, the results can be quite messy if they're not also using Outlook and/or Word.

One particular frustration is that it's nearly impossible to control the formatting when you *reply* to a message that was created with Word as the email editor. (I say "nearly" because it often turns out that if you edit in *exactly* the right sequence, you *might* be able to do what you want, but it's certainly not obvious, and is quite frustrating until you've figured out the magic incantation.)

And finally - Word is huge. It's a big, fat application. Using it for email is like trying to use a chainsaw to open a can of tuna. Yes, you can do it, but the process and results are messy.

I don't quite understand how inserting a hyperlink is easier, to be honest. Is it really all about that one feature?

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Comment from Vera Hawkins on 2006-10-31

2006-10-31T22:00:59Z

We are currently making it company policy to have Word as our editor as quite a few people here need to insert hyperlinks to documents instead of attaching documents. Inserting hyperlinks in an email is much easier with Word as Outlook editor. Would you be able to let me know the reasons for not having this? Is it only email size? I would appreciate your comments. I know that there were issues pre 2003 version but thought they may have been ironed out. We are using Office 2003.

Vera Hawkins

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