How to remove this in MS Word?

Question

I want to remove this arrow thing in MS Word

I tried everything like searching about this on the net but to my dismay, I found nothing. Please help.

Solution 1

All you have to do is Google.

"Expand/Collapse is a feature built-in to all the default heading styles in Word except for No Space and Normal. There is no option to disable the Expand/Collapse feature unless you will be using the Normal style or you will be creating a custom style based on the Normal formatting."

How do you remove all instances of expand/collapse in Word 2016?

Solution 2

That "arrow" appears because the style for that text is set to either Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. Clicking the arrow allows you to expand or collapse texts under that heading. To remove it, you must change the style to Normal or another style that is not for headings.

Comments

[jsotola]

what is it for? ... why do you want to remove it?

[Hannu]

Too little detail to be possible to analyze and answer: Show WHERE in Word you see it.

[Charles Kenyon]

You cannot remove this; you can change the style, though. See the posts supplied as answers. It is to help in reading and editing the document. It does not print. ---- @jsotola - this is feature of Word since Word 2013

[jsotola]

@CharlesKenyon thanks ... it is unclear if the OP actually knows what it is used for

[phuclv]

that tiny thing doesn't have much meaning. Why didn't you take a larger screenshot for more context?

[Charles Kenyon]

To Google, you need to know the jargon of Expand/Collapse.

[Hunter54998]

@CharlesKenyon True, but even if you put into Google "remove arrow thing ms word" it comes up with a thread of people discussing it and talking about how you cannot remove it. Removing the arrows that expand and collapse the headings in MS Word 2016

[Tammi]

THIS is useful answer. Although I am disappointed to hear that it is non-configurable for heading styles. Shame on you, Microsoft....

[Community]

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[Dave M]

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