I have a very annoying problem that I hope you can help me solve. HTD says: Microsoft Word is a powerful text editor, just don’t let that formatting get in your way!
#WORD 2013 HOW TO TAB ONE LINE SOFTWARE#
Please leave a comment if this worked for you, or if you have any other software questions that are particularly bugging you, leave a comment as well. While it’s a simple fix, it is not immediately apparent or obvious on how to do it. Hopefully this little trick has saved you time and your forehead from being pounded against the keyboard. The little black square should also magically disappear. Once you uncheck those items, your page break should (hopefully) be removed.
#WORD 2013 HOW TO TAB ONE LINE WINDOWS#
On Windows, you should also go to the “Line and Page Breaks” tab and uncheck the items mentioned above: Uncheck paragraph options on Windows You should try unchecking the following items (Mac version shown below): Paragraph formatting on Windowsįrom the box that opens up, go to the “Line and Page Breaks” tab. On Windows, the easiest way to get to the paragraph formatting is to Right-Click on the paragraph and choose “Paragraph” from the window. Then go to Format > Paragraph from the menu. First, on the Mac, position your cursor in the paragraph that has the little black square.
Here’s how you remove the paragraph formatting. To remove the break, you will need to see what formatting is applied to that paragraph. Little black square paragraph formattingĪccording to Microsoft, the little black square signifies that there is paragraph formatting applied to that paragraph. (Normally, you can delete page breaks or section breaks by just highlighting them or putting the cursor right after it and deleting it. And, no matter what I tried to do, I could not delete it. In my example, I noticed that the following paragraph had a “little black square” to the left of the paragraph. Once you know where the issue is, you should look at the hidden formatting of that paragraph and the one immediately following it. Once you have that enabled, you should go to the paragraph in question. You can access it by going to File > Options > Display and check off “Show all formatting marks.” Show all formatting marks on Windows Note that I enabled “All” so that I can see all types of hidden, non-printing characters. To do this on the Mac, go to Word Preferences > View. To ensure that you really are seeing all of the mark-up icons in your document, it’s helpful to enable the “Nonprinting characters” as well. Show paragraph styling on Windows Show Non-Printing Characters & all Formatting Marks This is what it looks like on Word for Windows. You can do this by clicking on the ¶ button. Display Paragraph Marksįirst, you need to enable the show paragraph marks and other hidden formatting. Here’s how you can remove those pesky section or page breaks that aren’t immediately obvious. But sometimes it’s not as intuitive as you might think to do things. Microsoft Word allows you to set up all sorts of formatting of your text, paragraphs, sections and document. How to Remove Little Black Square Paragraph Formatting But to correct the issue, the steps are relatively easy. There was a page break occurring but when revealing the formatting, all that you could see what a little black square on the paragraph after. Mysterious page breakĪbove you can see the page having the issue. But removing that formatting is not the most intuitive. However, there was a little black square right near paragraph that I believed to be causing the issue. However, in this case, there was no line signifying a section break or page break when the formatting was revealed. Normally, if you click on the “show paragraphs” button (¶), you can see a page break or section break. Recently, I received a panicked email from my step-mom wondering why a page break could not be removed from Microsoft Word.
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