Without them it would be almost impossible to create our documents in effective way: it would take very long to correct errors that prevent correct alignment of text and objects. These marks are non-printable characters and show us places where we’ve pressed SPACE, TAB, ENTER, or where hidden text or object anchors are.

It would be very hard to spot one extra space or place where you accidentally pressed TAB twice instead of once if it weren’t for formatting marks.

If you want Word to correctly align and space your paragraphs, wrap text around objects as you want and to make the report table look exactly as you want to, then you have to make sure you didn’t put extra spaces between words or in cells, that you have paragraph spaced correctly or indentation set up so that your document looks just right. Do not get me wrong as this has nothing to do with grammar, style or spelling. See screenshot:įor more information, please visit: showing formatting marks in Word.One of the essential rules for effectively creating documents in Word is to write correctly. Check the formatting marks you want to show in the Formatting Marks section, or hide them by unchecking. Please apply the utility by clicking Enterprise > Display Settings in View group, see screenshot:Ģ. Kutools for Word, a handy add-in, includes groups of tools to ease your work and enhance your ability of processing word document.

Kutools gathering formatting marks and document content display setting together, it’s more convenient for users. Show or hide formatting marks in Word with Kutools Note: If you want to show or hide all formatting marks, you can click under Home tab, or you can press shortcut Ctrl+* to switch showing or hiding. Step 2: click Display, in Always show these formatting marks on the screen section, check to show them in documents or you can check Show all formatting marks to show all formatting marks in document. Show or hide formatting marks in Word 2007/2010/2013Ĭlick Officeicon and then click Word Options in Word 2007 Ĭlick Filetab and then click Options in Word 2010/2013. The keyboard shortcut of showing all formatting marks: Ctrl+* or Shift+Ctrl+8 Step 2: click View tab, check any formatting marks in Formatting marks section to show them in document, or you can check All item to show all kinds of formatting marks in document.

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