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Blue insert icons plus dots on Pages

I was working on pages, and pressed some keys (wanted to press command+A, but I think I pressed command+Shift+A, but don't remember for sure) and lots of blue insert icons, with blue dots follow every word started appearing. Couldn't find a way to fix it. What can I do?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on May 5, 2020 3:45 PM

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Posted on May 5, 2020 6:45 PM

Go to the View menu.

Choose Hide Invisibles.


The dots show you where the spaces are. I'd delete the one before Manipulation in the second line.


The pilcrow ( ¶ ) shows where you pressed return.


Down in the References, you pressed tab three times after "228-269". I can see why you might have wanted to avoid splitting the publisher name, but not why you'd want this to be the only indented second line in the references.


Showing invisibles can be a handy tool when you are cleaning up a document. It's done using the same menu item (which toggles between Hide and Show, depending on the current status). The keystroke shortcut for this item is listed in my menu as shift-command-I, so it's possible you may have pressed that.


Regards,

Barry

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May 5, 2020 6:45 PM in response to adityaagarwal_98

Go to the View menu.

Choose Hide Invisibles.


The dots show you where the spaces are. I'd delete the one before Manipulation in the second line.


The pilcrow ( ¶ ) shows where you pressed return.


Down in the References, you pressed tab three times after "228-269". I can see why you might have wanted to avoid splitting the publisher name, but not why you'd want this to be the only indented second line in the references.


Showing invisibles can be a handy tool when you are cleaning up a document. It's done using the same menu item (which toggles between Hide and Show, depending on the current status). The keystroke shortcut for this item is listed in my menu as shift-command-I, so it's possible you may have pressed that.


Regards,

Barry

Blue insert icons plus dots on Pages

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