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Brackets showing up in header and footer for MS word2003

Just today, I seem to have accidentally toggled some feature in my settings that has caused these gray, L-shaped brackets to show up in my header and footer. Here's a screen shot. I've got word 2003, and my operating system is 64 bit windows 7. These don't print up, but I find them rather distracting, and would like to know how to turn them off.

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I'd checked those already, and they were already turned off. I did manage to find that this feature is sometimes related to Asian languages being enabled in office itself, but I was having trouble navigating to where I could open the MS office settings from my start menu (I have win 7, and most of the instructions were written for people with XP). I finally found it, and lo and behold, Japanese was turned on, along with English.

Turning off Japanese took care of the issue.

No idea how that happened, as I know for a fact I had not changed any of my language settings in MS office (didn't even know how to change settings in MS office until I started poking around). I would like to know how that got changed, so I can prevent it happening again.

But at least it's fixed.

Thanks all.

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Last updated February 19, 2024 Views 1,467 Applies to: