Bread Upon the Waters: MS Word Query

[akirlu]

Just in case All Knowledge is Indeed Contained in LJ still: Does anyone know how to turn off the crop marks in the PC version of MSWord 2003? Whenever I have a document open in Print Layout View (which is most of the time) in Word 2003, I have crop marks appearing in the corners. They don't interfere with my use of the program or anything, but I'd like to turn them off, and they annoy me because I don't know how. I figured out how to do it in the Word 2010 version I have at work, but can't seem to find the setting toggle in 2003. Any clues? Anyone?

(It may be worth mentioning that they appeared when I added the Asian Languages module to Word so that I can type in Chinese, which I don't *think* is relevant to turning them off but does mean that I don't know in what menu they got turned on, because I didn't manually do it. One might suppose they could be found in Tools/Options/View, or perhaps Tools/Options/Asian Typography, but I'm not finding anything in either spot.)

Comments

Hmm

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839371

It's the Asian languages. Shocked, I'm just shocked...

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, drat. Thanks for finding that, though. My problem with finding anything in MS support is that I am terrible at guessing what non-standard name they have come up with for ordinary things. "Margin marks," and "Text boundaries," indeed! Humph. Anyway, thanks.

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I didn't use Microsoft. I always Google first. It gives me a good hint about the words I'm using and does better cross-linking. Word help is infamous for telling you almost everything you need to know after you figure out it trains you to ask the precise wording of the question it wants to answer.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Ah, that is a useful tip -- just routing around the Word help. I am completely crap at being trained to ask the precise wording of their questions. It's like their help function, or at least their help function keyword search, was written by space-alien trademark lawyers using a Chinese-to-Finnish translator program.

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Love that description!

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Iirc, much extraneous marks are in "Hide/Show Paragraphs" and has been in a different place (and/or with a different keyboard shortcut) in every version of Word I've ever used. If I understand what you mean by "crop marks", which I may not, in which case here agrees with the above.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but no, I think Larry got it in one.

[carbonel]

Someone sent me a file to copyedit that had support for Asian languages, and it messed up my search and replace screens. I eventually had to do something with Windows (not Word) to fix it.

But it appears that Larry pinpointed your exact problem, so never mind.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yep, he got it. And the trick of using Google before trying Word help is genius.