UNRESOLVED WEIRD PROBLEM in WORD: BOOKMARKS
1) I don’t use/insert any text or location bookmarks.
2) I never use combination keystroke shortcuts.
3) I’ve recently done alignment work on the vertical and horizontal layouts of neighboring text blocks and non-text-block text, in which I got the horizontal and vertical alignments I needed by inserting both leading spaces and changing their font sizes numbers, and by changing above-and-below line spacing points, to get the alignment/layout accuracy I wanted.
Shortly after I started the task, non-printing gray I-beams began to appear randomly but inconsistently, where I had tweaked both non-text-block text and the line spacing of text in a text box, and immediately left of the first character in a line.
They persist even when the paragraph mark is turned off. Diligent digging on my part found that I was seeing location bookmarks. I didn’t create them, they are unnamed, and the bookmarking tool does not display them, allow me to name them, or enable me to remove them or prevent their display.
It’s as if something lurking in the background is seeing my tweaking font space sizes and line spacings, and presuming (without asking me) that I’m creating location bookmarks.
It’s even more exotic: after I had run some prints of the single page on which I did the tweaking, very faint thin light gray versions of the non-existing I-beam location bookmarks began to appear in the printed copies. That’s a very real no-no: bookmarks are not supposed to print.
Explanations and fixes, please!
I’m running Vista, which is kept up to date. My Microsoft suite programs are scrupulously updated, protected by Microsoft Security Essentials, and supervised by Secunia’s PSI. I don’t go to strange places on the web or open email from sources I don’t recognize. I’ll be happy to send you the document on which I did the work described above.
Thanks!
