How to show or hide formatting marks in Word.
It is entirely possible to show or hide formatting marks in Word . These are special characters which, by default, are hidden and affect the way the text is displayed in our document. The main idea is to reveal spaces, tabs, line breaks, paragraphs and section breaks in the document.
The format tab cannot be printed; If any of the formatting marks is active in Word, it shows hidden characters, we can choose to show all the marks..
How to show or hide formatting marks in Word.
We will have to follow the steps that we will detail below to show or hide the formatting marks in Microsoft Word.
- To show the formatting marks, we will have to click on File.
- Next, we will click on Options.
- A dialog opens and we will click on Show in the left sidebar.
- In the “Always show these formatting marks on the screen” section, we will have to enable one or more formatting marks, that is, if we wish, we simply mark the checkbox.
- It is also possible to click the Show all formatting marks checkbox to be able to display all the marks in question.
- When we finish we click on accept.
- In order to hide the formatting marks, we simply repeat the previous procedure and that's it.
We can see this in detail to make it more clear. Let's recap, we start by clicking on the “File” tab. Once we are here, we go to “Options” which will open a new window..
In this new window we are going to click on “Show” that is located in the left sidebar. In the section “Always show these formatting marks on the screen”; we can enable one or more formatting flags by checking the checkboxes.
We can also click on “Show all formatting marks” if we want to see them all. Once we finish, we simply click on “OK”..
It is even possible to open the paragraph marks with a format mark using the key combination Ctrl + Shift + 8, this way we can see the paragraph mark symbol on the screen. The formatting mark follows any new paragraph in a document.
In order to hide the marks, we will follow the previous steps, only we will have to uncheck the boxes that we checked previously.