How to show invisible characters in Microsoft Word

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In this video you will learn
what are invisible characters in Word documents
and how to show and to hide them.
Invisible characters in Word are just formatting marks.
They are used in Word to show the layout of a document.
You can see arrows (for tabs), dots for spaces
an anchor for an object anchor
and so on.
and you know exactly how the text is built
for example where a paragraph starts
and where it ends.
If you'de like to change something in the text,
to add or to remove a paragraph
you can do that easily,
because you see, what you have to change
to add, to shift or to remove.
Formatting characters in Word are marks for
optional hyphens
space characters
tabs
paragraphs, line breaks
page and section breaks
and object anchors.
So, what do the formatting marks look like, exactly?
Let's display the marks
so that we can see some examples of them
and remember - they are really hidden,
they do not appear on the paper when you print a document,
they are only for our information
about the layout of the document.
The first character is formatting mark for optional hyphen,
then the next are: dots for spaces,
arrows for tab marks,
five paragraph marks,
three manual line breaks,
page break
and finally an anchor for the anchor of the clicked image.
Now, how to show the hidden characters if they are hidden?
Because they are hidden by default.
To show them we can use keyboard shortcut or a menu button.
We can also change some settings
so that the hidden characters are visible in Word documents by default.
Let's start with the menu button
To show or to hide formatting marks
hit the button with the paragraph symbol on it.
This will show or hide the special characters.
But if you want to do this faster,
use shortcut ctrl+*
(on the keyboard hit keys ctrl+shift+8)
An other option is to change Word default settings.
Choose File | Options
and under Display
there are settings for displaying formatting marks.
Changes made here will be default Word settings
from now new created documents
will be shown with or without hidden characters,
accordingly to options we have changed.
That's all.
If you want to know more about special hidden characters,
how to use them effectively to keep maximum control
over Word documents
and how to avoid problems with the text formatting
check out our Ninja courses.
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How to show invisible characters in Microsoft Word

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