![]() ![]() Here’s a Word 2011 document showing invisible characters. If you have ever created a complex Word document, you've probably run into those frustrating issues where you just can't seem to get a bullet point or paragraph of text aligned correctly or some. Most of the requests I get on this topic concern turning invisibles off, because since the user often doesn’t know how he turned those invisible characters on, he also doesn’t know how to turn them off. ![]() ![]() Those characters are just as “charactery” as anything else you type– they take up space, they’re copy and paste-able, you can give them a point size– but they’re invisible, and they don’t print. Turn the display of formatting marks on or off Go to File > Options > Display. Microsoft Word on the Mac has a nice feature that lets you show invisible (non-printing) characters such as returns, tabs, and spaces. Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them. Under Always show these formatting marks on the screen, select the check box for each formatting mark that you always want to display regardless if the Show/Hide button is turned on or off. There’s a keyboard shortcut for toggling invisible characters (like paragraph marks, and spaces, and tabs) in Microsoft Word on a Mac and as far as I know it’s worked in every version, since the very beginning.
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