Just go to File | Options, and click on the Display tab. Doing this isn’t usually necessary and make Word very cluttered and difficult to work with, but ‘each to their own’. If you find you are regularly needing to look at the hidden characters in your document, it is possible to make some or all display permanently. So to hide the characters again, just press Control+Shift+8 or click the Show/Hide button again. The paragraph is broken with a Line Breakīoth the keyboard and mouse methods of showing hidden characters act as toggles. The text isn’t centered, someone has used tabs instead, and there are unnecessary tabs after the text. Here’s a document with an off-center heading and a paragraph with strange text wrapping. Once we can see all these things, it becomes a lot easier to find the culprits causing problems, and remove them. The next page section break at the bottom, is what is pushing text to the next page. The Section Break (Continuous) in the middle of the right-hand column make the two-column setting to become single column then back to two-column. We can now see all the paragraph marks, indents, and several different section breaks that are making our text do strange things.
Tabs, Section Breaks, Paragraph Marks even Spaces are all exposed by Show All. Show all is the easy way to see all the underlying formatting to help you figure out what’s happening. At some point commonsense prevailed and now ‘Show All’ is on the Home tab, Paragraph section.
#Hide formatting marks in word software
Early versions of Word had a ‘Show All’ option but it was hidden away because Microsoft believed their software was so good, such a tool was not necessary. Microsoft Word was designed to hide all the formatting and technicalities (WYSIWYG). That’s where ‘Show All’ becomes essential. It helps figure out what’s going on when the layout doesn’t behave. If you are working on a Word document with complex formatting, sometimes you need to see the hidden characters and unseen workings.
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