Note how paragraph symbols appear in your document window at the left margin. Each symbol indicates where a new paragraph begins as a result of the carriage return.

The trick—and it’s such a strange solution that it does appear to be a trick—is to understand that in Word, text formatting is tied to the paragraph symbol ().

Following the announcement of the "Separate Pages" view in Word for the Web, Microsoft revealed new paragraph customization tools for better control of your document flow and look.

Formatting symbols have suddenly appeared on all my Word documents. What did I do? I've tried Help and Wizard but haven't found a way of hiding them.