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red formatting stuff shows up in Word 2010
Sorry, I am new to this group, so I might be doing something wrong in posting my problem here. I was minding my own business, typing away on a letter in Word 2010, when my fingers spazzed out and hit the wrong key/keys. Now when I type anything RED formatting junk shows up on the right side of the page, with a red horizontal line extending from what I was typing (which connects to a rectangular/oval box that contains more information).
I tried to use the curvy arrow to reverse the steps to when this started showing up, saving the document and then opening it again, and checking things out under Help/Display, etc., but to no avail. Microsoft wants to charge me an arm and a leg (after a ridiculously complicated process to even get to someone who can answer the question) which is wrong in principle (because I have had/updated Microsoft products since the beginning with Windows on 3.5 inch disks without ever asking for help).
I can't even select text and make it smaller (for example) without there being a vertical line on the left and other junk. Clearly, I must have turned on something that needs to be reversed (in other words, I only want the text to show up. as usual). I have searched for what this might be, but am unable to identify it to turn it off.
Any ideas? Thanks very much!