Those strange ¶ symbols are called pilcrow signs or paragraph signs and they show the end of paragraphs. They’re useful to see when you’re formatting and editing e-books and don’t print at all, but could be distracting.
Fortunately, there’s an easy way to remove them.
- Click the top menu item Tools->Options
- Click View
- Look for ‘Formatting Marks’, and uncheck the option ‘All’
- Click OK
Or for newer versions…
- Click the top menu item ‘Review’
- Look for ‘Show Markup’ and click
- Look for ‘Formatting’ and uncheck
OR
- Click View
- Move down to Toolbars and choose Standard, for standard toolbar
- You should see a Pilcrow icon on the toolbar that you can click to either show or hide
Finally, Windows 10 makes it much easier to find. Just click the ‘Home’ tab, and you should see the Pilcrow icon somewhere near the top middle. You can click it to turn it off and click it again to turn it on.
Hope this helps 🙂