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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2007Odd brackets appearing in my Word docs
For the past month, many of my new Word (2004 v11.3) docs have this odd bracket that appears around text at different times. It looks fairly similar to the classic ] and [ brackets. I certainly didn't type them in, and they can't be selected, deleted, copied, or printed. When I copy and paste these docs into, say, TextEdit, these brackets disappear. But they usually reappear once I paste the text back into a new Word doc. Any ideas what these are? They are bookmarks. Word 2004 users have reported spontaneous bookmark generation on copy and paste. It doesn't happen to everyone, and no one knows what exactly is causing it. On my machine, it went away when I removed the Pasteboard module of You Control, and it's possible that other clipboard utilities help cause it (though Butler's is fine here). You can hide them via Word | Preferences | View, uncheck "bookmarks." You can delete them--search this newsgroups for a macro from Kristina to delete OLE bookmarks to delete them all at once. They don't cause any harm in Word documents, but are a bit aggravating. If you convert to HTML, I think they show up as anchors, and are annoying. > For the past month, many of my new Word (2004 v11.3) docs have this > odd bracket that appears around text at different times. It looks [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Any ideas what these are? Excellent, Daiya, both for the pref turn off, and for pointing out that the problem could be coming from a clipboard utility. I just installed a freeware one called PTHPasteboard, so that could be the issue. In any case, I never use them, so turning off the pref did the trick. Many thanks! On Mar 28, 12:18 pm, Daiya Mitchell <daiyaNOS...@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote: > They are bookmarks. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > You can hide them via Word | Preferences | View, uncheck "bookmarks." |
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