How to Hide Formatting and Paragraph Marks in Word?
If you’re working on a document in Microsoft Word, there may be times when you want to hide the formatting and paragraph marks. This can be helpful if you’re trying to troubleshoot a formatting issue, or if you simply want to see what your document looks like without all the extra symbols.
Here’s how to hide formatting and paragraph marks in Word:
1. Open your document in Word.
2. Click the “Home” tab.
3. In the “Paragraph” group, click the button that looks like a paragraph mark (¶). This will toggle the display of formatting and paragraph marks on and off.
4. To turn off the display of formatting and paragraph marks permanently, go to the “File” tab and click “Options.”
5. In the “Word Options” dialog box, select “Display.”
6. Under “Always show these formatting marks on the screen,” uncheck the box next to “Formatting marks.”
7. Click “OK.”
Now, when you open your document, the formatting and paragraph marks will be hidden by default. If you want to see them again, you can follow the steps above to toggle them on.
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How to hide formatting marks in Word
When you’re editing a document in Microsoft Word, it can be helpful to see all the formatting marks so you can see where spaces, tabs, and line breaks are. But sometimes you don’t want to see all that clutter, and you just want to see the text. Here’s how to turn the formatting marks off and on.
To turn off the formatting marks:
1. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Show/Hide button
2. (the button with the pilcrow, or paragraph mark, on it).
The formatting marks will disappear from the document, and you’ll just see the text.
To turn the formatting marks back on:
1. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Show/Hide button
2. again.
The formatting marks will reappear in the document.
How to hide paragraph marks in Word
Assuming you want to hide the paragraph marks and other formatting symbols in Microsoft Word:
1. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Symbol icon.
2. In the Symbols dialog box, on the Symbols tab, click the Special Characters button.
3. In the Insert Symbol dialog box, on the Symbols tab, in the Symbols group, click the More Symbols button.
4. In the More Symbols dialog box, on the Special Characters tab, in the Character code group, enter the character code for the symbol you want to insert, and then click the Insert button.
5. In the More Symbols dialog box, click the Close button.
You can also use the following shortcut keys to insert the paragraph mark and other formatting symbols:
To insert the paragraph mark, press CTRL+SHIFT+8.
To insert the non-breaking space, press CTRL+SHIFT+9.
To insert the optional hyphen, press CTRL+- (hyphen).
To insert the em dash, press CTRL+SHIFT+- (dash).
To insert the en dash, press CTRL+- (dash).
To insert the bullet, press CTRL+SHIFT+8 (asterisk).
To insert the trademark symbol, press CTRL+ALT+T.
To insert the copyright symbol, press CTRL+ALT+C.
To insert the registered trademark symbol, press CTRL+ALT+R.
How to hide both formatting and paragraph marks in Word
Assuming you’re using Microsoft Word, there are a few ways to hide both formatting and paragraph marks.
One way is to simply click the “show/hide” button in the toolbar. This will toggle the display of both formatting and paragraph marks on and off.
Another way is to go to the “View” tab and click on the “Show/Hide” button in the “Show” group. This will also toggle the display of both formatting and paragraph marks.
One more way is to press the shortcut key combination of CTRL+SHIFT+8. This will also toggle the display of both formatting and paragraph marks.
Conclusion
There are a few different ways that you can hide formatting and paragraph marks in Word. One way is to use the “Reveal Formatting” pane. You can access this pane by going to the View tab and selecting “Reveal Formatting.” Another way is to use the “Show/Hide” button on the Home tab. This button will toggle the display of formatting and paragraph marks. Finally, you can use the “Formatting” options in the Word Options dialog box. To access these options, go to the File tab and select “Options.” Then, select “Display” from the left-hand menu. Under the ” Always show these formatting marks on the screen” section, you can choose which formatting marks you want to display.
