Hints & Tips: Microsoft Word – Show or Hide Formatting Marks

Sometimes you may struggle with formatting and you do not understand why some text is deleted or a page break is entered in the wrong place. In order to help to rectify the problem you may want to display Formatting Marks. Select one of the following:

 

  • Microsoft Word 2007 Paragraph GroupOn the Home tab, in the Paragraph section, click Show/Hide

 

 

 

 

  • Or from keyboard press a combination of <Ctrl>, <Shift>, <8> keys simultaneously.

 

This will display tab characters, spaces, paragraph marks, hidden text etc. Clicking again on the Show/Hide icon or a combination of keys will hide the characters.

1 Response to “Hints & Tips: Microsoft Word – Show or Hide Formatting Marks”


  1. 1 Catherine Davidson

    This is so useful – it’s one of those things that gets me every time!

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