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Old October 1st 06, 09:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
California Dreamin'
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After just spending 6 hours on and off the phone with Microsoft with another
problem, am turning to you with these since they won't help me with windows
98. A document I copied from the internet, that I've used with no problem
before, all of a sudden had paragraph, enter and space marks on it and the
popup said that it was converting to that format. Now all docs in my computer
have it - how can I get rid of it? Is is a virus? (I currently have an old
copy of norton antivirus.) Also, one of the three folders containing this and
other documents, last night gave me a message that I could only read it
(which it subsequently wouldn't let me do since it was "in use by another"
which it wasn't). Then it said that it had encountered an illegal operation
and will shut down, but it didn't. Help!!!!!
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Old October 1st 06, 10:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Ron Badour
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Default Virus? Paragraph, space and return marks displayed, etc.

Have you updated your old copy of Norton with current definitions and run a
full scan?

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"California Dreamin'" California wrote
in message ...
After just spending 6 hours on and off the phone with Microsoft with
another
problem, am turning to you with these since they won't help me with
windows
98. A document I copied from the internet, that I've used with no problem
before, all of a sudden had paragraph, enter and space marks on it and the
popup said that it was converting to that format. Now all docs in my
computer
have it - how can I get rid of it? Is is a virus? (I currently have an old
copy of norton antivirus.) Also, one of the three folders containing this
and
other documents, last night gave me a message that I could only read it
(which it subsequently wouldn't let me do since it was "in use by another"
which it wasn't). Then it said that it had encountered an illegal
operation
and will shut down, but it didn't. Help!!!!!



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Old October 1st 06, 11:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Jeff Richards
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Default Virus? Paragraph, space and return marks displayed, etc.

If you are accessing this document using WORD, then do Tools then Options
and View and either turn off (uncheck) the All setting under Formatting
marks, or uncheck the particular ones you don't want to see.

You haven't indicated what the 'other' problem was, but it sounds to me like
the system has developed a fault, either RAM or disk.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"California Dreamin'" California wrote
in message ...
After just spending 6 hours on and off the phone with Microsoft with
another
problem, am turning to you with these since they won't help me with
windows
98. A document I copied from the internet, that I've used with no problem
before, all of a sudden had paragraph, enter and space marks on it and the
popup said that it was converting to that format. Now all docs in my
computer
have it - how can I get rid of it? Is is a virus? (I currently have an old
copy of norton antivirus.) Also, one of the three folders containing this
and
other documents, last night gave me a message that I could only read it
(which it subsequently wouldn't let me do since it was "in use by another"
which it wasn't). Then it said that it had encountered an illegal
operation
and will shut down, but it didn't. Help!!!!!



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Old October 1st 06, 11:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Richard in AZ
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Default Virus? Paragraph, space and return marks displayed, etc.


"California Dreamin'" California wrote in message
...
After just spending 6 hours on and off the phone with Microsoft with another
problem, am turning to you with these since they won't help me with windows
98. A document I copied from the internet, that I've used with no problem
before, all of a sudden had paragraph, enter and space marks on it and the
popup said that it was converting to that format. Now all docs in my computer
have it - how can I get rid of it? Is is a virus? (I currently have an old
copy of norton antivirus.) Also, one of the three folders containing this and
other documents, last night gave me a message that I could only read it
(which it subsequently wouldn't let me do since it was "in use by another"
which it wasn't). Then it said that it had encountered an illegal operation
and will shut down, but it didn't. Help!!!!!


The Paragraph Marks etc. are feature of Microsoft Word to let you identify formatting error.
You can turn these off by either
Click on the tool bar icon that looks like a double stem backward P. or
In the Tools menu, under options, in the view tab, uncheck show all formatting.


 




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