How to Remove Strange Symbols shown in MS Word Document

If you are using MS Word 2007 or 2010 and see strange symbols like ¶ in whole document then these characters can be removed by changing the setting in your word document.

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Open the MS Word 2007 or 2010.

Go To File—> Options

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On the Word Option screen, click on Display

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On right side under “Always show these formatting marks on the screen”, deselect all the check boxes like below.

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Click OK.

Open the document again and all the symbols and characters should have gone.