Hi Bill, It does sound to me like these are formatting marks. Have you tried looking at the document in Print Preview? And do the dots still show there? If they don't, then from the Tools menu, select Options and look at the View tab. The second block is Formatting Marks. Make sure that *all* the boxes in that section are unchecked, including the All box. If there is already a check mark against Spaces, the Show/Hide button will show or hide other characters but will leave the spaces showing as dots. If that doesn't do it, then you really have got periods/full-stops replacing each space. You could use Replace to replace all peiods/full-stops with spaces (though you would have to go through the document and put them back at the end of each sentence). HTH --- Andrew K. > -----Original Message----- > From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bill goddard > Sent: 16 December 2004 19:47 > To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2003 > > Cathy...After looking for the show all toolbar and clicking > on it a few times nothing happened.This is the dot/period I > mean > It.is.an.imperfect.solution.to.a.non.-desirable.situation, > but.in.some. > cases.those.who.are.executing.the.final.arrangements.are.grand > children. > > > > > > Is it the kind of dot between the center of every word that > shows up > > when show/hide toggle for 'show all' (standard toolbar) is > set to on, > > or an actual period between words? If so, try toggling the > 'show all' icon. > > > Greetings all....I did the cut, copy and paste in word and > it came out > like > > this. There is a dot between every word. How do i remove the dot. > > It.is.an.imperfect.solution.to.a.non.-desirable.situation, > but.in.some. > > > cases.those.who.are.executing.the.final.arrangements.are.grand > children. > > > > T.I.A....bill > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************