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Show or hide tab characters in Word 2007/2010

Step 1:

If you are user of Word 2007: click Office icon

If you are user of Word 2010: click File tab

, and then click Word Options;

, and then click Options.

Step 2: click Display >> check or uncheck Tab characters in Always show these
formatting marks on the screensection to show or hide the tab characters of
document

Understanding Nonprinting Characters

by Allen Wyatt (last updated August 27, 2011)

There are many characters that Word keeps track of, but that don't normally show
up on the screen or on a printed copy of your document. You use many of these

characters every day, but probably don't think of them as characters (as such). The
list of nonprinting characters that Word uses includes the following:

Column breaks

Hidden text

Newline characters

Optional hyphens

Page breaks

Paragraph marks

Section breaks

Spaces

Tabs

Each of these can be individually displayed in Word by displaying the Word Options
dialog box. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. In
Word 2010 display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) At the left side
of the dialog box click Display. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The display options of the Word Options dialog box.

There are many times when you are working in Word when it is beneficial to make
sure that nonprinting characters are displayed. For instance, if you cannot seem to
get something aligned properly or formatted just right, nonprinting characters may
be the culprits. Display them and then check your formatting.
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word
is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (5994) applies
to MS Word versions: 2007 | 2010
You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Understanding
Nonprinting Characters.
Related Tips:

Inserting a Special Symbol

Displaying Object Anchors

Searching for Paragraph Marks and Line Breaks

More Power! For some people, the prospect of creating Word macros can be scary.
WordTips: The Macros can help you conquer your fears and you'll discover you're much more
confident and productive as you make Word do exactly what you want. This is an invaluable
source for learning macros. You are introduced to the topic in bite-sized chunks, pulled from past
issues of WordTips. Learn at your own pace, exactly the way you want. Check out WordTips:
The Macros today!

Does anyone know a shortcut to turn "Hidden text" on/off in Windows 2007
(Vista OS) with the press of one or two buttons? Or would it be possible to create
a macro that would allow me to do that?
Right now, I press the "Office" button, then the "Word options", then "Display
and then "Hidden text" and "OK". grrrrrrrr ... too time consuming.
I would love to assign the function to a F? button.
If you know how to create a macro, will you make it step-by-step instructions?
I would REALLY appreciate it.
Charlotte

This works in XP...

Oct 7, 2009

The shortcut I use with XP is Ctrl + , (Ctrl + comma).

Christine
Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 12:15
Member (2003)
Danish to English
+ ...

If you are working with a CAT (= Trados or Wordfast), you

may have to do that twice. It then cycles between three
views:
1. Hidden text hidden
2. CAT codes and source text visible
3. CAT codes & source text + formatting (hard line
breaks, tabulator arrows, spaces between words etc. etc.)
all visible.
Pressing Ctrl + , a third time returns you to where you
started.
But I don't know whether it will work with Vista.
I use it all the time - the other method is far too
complicated!

shortcut

Lori Cirefice
Local time: 12:15
French to English

Oct 7, 2009

CTRL + comma + comma

Works just fine in Word 2007
[Edited at 2009-10-07 14:50 GMT]

Ctrl + (

Sylvie Eschkotte
Germany
Local time: 12:15
Member (2006)
German to French

Without Trados or Wf
Ctrl+Shift + 8 = Ctrl +(

Oct 7, 2009

[Modifi le 2009-10-07 16:39 GMT]

Did not work for me....

Oct 7, 2009

Thank you for your quick answers.

Charlotte
Langbeen
United States
Local time: 06:15
Member (2002)
English to Danish
+ ...

I don't know why. But using ctrl + , (komma) does not

change anything.
Ctrl+Shift + 8 = Ctrl +( only lets me see formatting
codes, which I am not interested in.

TOPIC STARTER

Dirty but works.

Oct 7, 2009

Word 7
Tobias

1 Developer Tab
2 Record Macro
3 Give name - something like SeeHiddenText
4 Use the mouse to select the string of options (as in your
original question)
5 Stop recording macro
6 Customize Quick access toolbar and add your new
macro:
a) More commands
b) Choose comands from >> macros
c) Add Normal.newmacros.Seehiddenttext
d) Modify, by selecting intuitive looking icon
Repeat above steps for "hide hidden text'. Probably,
somebody who knows how to program could do all of this
with one button. However, programming, everything
using two buttons on the Quick Access Toolbar is quite

quick, if not so elegant.

Ctrl+Shift +H

Sylvie Eschkotte
Germany
Local time: 12:15
Member (2006)
German to French

Oct 7, 2009

Charlotte Langbeen wrote:

I don't know why. But using ctrl + , (komma) does
not change anything.
Ctrl+Shift + 8 = Ctrl +( only lets me see formatting
codes, which I am not interested in.

Then Ctrl+Shift +H ?

Esteban Flamini

A Word Basic macro

Local time: 08:15

Member (2005)
English to Spanish
+ ...

Hi, if the Ctrl+comma combination doesn't work in your

computer, you can do the following:

Oct 7, 2009

1. Go to Tools > Macro > Record New Macro

2. In the dialog box which appears, give some name for
the macro (for example, AlternateHiddenText). Make a
note of this name!
3. Press the "keyboard" icon.
4. In the new dialog box, select a hotkey for your macro
(for example, Ctrl+comma or whatever) in the text field
which is provided for that. CAUTION: if the hotkey is
already assigned to something else, the dialog box will let
you know. In this case, delete the hotkey definitition and

type a new one in the field. (Check that the "Save

changes" option is set to "Normal.dot".)
5. Hit "Close".
6. A toolbar with just two buttons (a "record" button and
a "stop" button) will appear. Press the "stop" button.
7. Now, this is not for the faint of heart! Go to Tools >
Macro > Macros.
8. A dialog box will appear, showing all your recorded
macros. Look for the one you created in Step 2, select it,
and choose Modify.
9. A new Macro Edition window will appear, and you will
see something like this:
Sub MacroName()
'
' MacroName Macro
' Macro recorded 15/05/04 by YourName
'
End Sub
Edit the contents of the macro, so it looks like this. (Be
VERY CAREFUL not to overwrite anything else):
Sub MacroName()
'
' MacroName Macro
' Macro recorded 15/05/04 by YourName
'
With ActiveWindow
With .View
.ShowHiddenText = Not .ShowHiddenText
End With
End With
End Sub
10. Close the macro edition window. You can start using
your new macro (or send me a little notice if something
goes wrong). (By the way, what you have just done is
programming a macro with Visual Basic for Applications.)

Good luck!

How to Delete Hidden Characters

in Word
By Sarah Sammis, eHow Contributor

Use the paragraph marker to start your search for

hidden characters.

Microsoft Word keeps track of formatting through hidden characters. As

you make edits, adding, deleting and moving text around, these
formatting characters get left behind. They can trail at the end of sections
or at the end of the document. They can cause extra blank pages and other
formatting oddities. To make sure your Word document is formatted the
way you want it, you should delete any unnecessary hidden characters.

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Instructions
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1
Switch to Draft view (Normal mode) by clicking on the icon that looks like a
page with lines.

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From the Home tab, click on the "Show/Hide" icon. You can also press the
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Scroll to the page with the unusual formatting and highlight the now visible
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Delete the highlighted characters. Deleting the extra characters will remove
the stray formatting.

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Tips & Warnings

Sometimes deleting the hidden characters can alter the formatting of

the text that's nearest to them. Highlight the affected text and reset it
to the Normal style or whatever other style you've created for your
document.

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To display hidden notes:
Word 2003 (or

"Tools"

earlier):

"Options"
"View"
"Hidden
Text"

Word 2007:

Click on
Office logo
(upper left
corner);
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Word
Options
(bottom
right);
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click on
Display;
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show these"
select
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From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:26:27 -0800 (PST)

I use Word2007, and that's the default way it's handled tracking
changes since at least Word2003.

In the Track Changes Options, you can set them to display however
you'd like. (In 2007, they're on the Review tab, Track Changes group.)
But if the "several people's" changes don't all appear in different
colors, then you've already altered at least one of the out-of-the-box
settings.
On Jan 11, 3:46 pm, cjthelder <cjthelderREMOVET...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I work with lots of long documents. We just updated this morning to

Word 2010. When tracking changes, I am used to and prefer deletions to
be in the right side-bar, as they were in earlier versions. Instead,
Word 2010 uses strike-through text to show they are deleted, and puts
the replacement text right next to it, inline. This makes a document
very difficult to read and edit further. Our documents go through
several people's hands, and this is horrible, to say the least. I tried
to search all strike-through text and replace it with nothing, but it
will not accomplish the task. There ought to be a way to set up my
options to delete the text "the old way" so the document is more
legible, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out. I would
appreciate help on this conundrum. Thanks in advance.
-cjthelder

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