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I have a symbol that is printing at the end of each line in a word document

When I cope and paste the document to show you the symbol it is not there!!

I find it very hard to create documents as it is hard to see what it will look like until I print it 

There are also "dots" between each word. The symbol is directly after the last letter, if I space down a line it is in the blank line as well. 

Thank you

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See http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/NonprintChars.htm for an explanation of these and other nonprinting characters ("formatting marks"), including why you might sometimes find them helpful.
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In Word 2003: Tools>Option>View>Formatting marks - uncheck All

Word 2007: Office Button>Word Options>Display - uncheck Show all formatting marks

Word 2010 + 2013: File>Options>Display - uncheck Show all formatting marks

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