stones arranged in paw shapes
Word-Wrangling Wednesdays

What are those non-printing characters?

Leave a comment

Click the little pilcrow (¶) on Word’s Home ribbon to see all the behind-the-scenes formatting marks that make documents look good. But what are those marks? See the table for a list.

a map "locator pin" styled as the MS Word logo
For more tips on viewing non-printing characters, look in Section 9 of the book.
In some versions of Word, these symbols are grey or black.

To hide the symbols again, click the pilcrow button (¶) on the Home ribbon once more.

a map "locator pin" styled as the MS Word logo
For tips on seeing which Styles are applied, coded down one side of the page, look in Section 11 of the book.
In the View settings on a Mac, select the characters you’d like to see — in the middle.
In the middle of the Display options on a Windows computer, select which formatting marks you’d like shown on screen always.
To see just some of these characters all of the time, go into Word’s Preferences (Mac) and View, or File (Windows) then Options.

Got a gnarly Word problem? Submit your problem and we’ll try to answer it in the Q&A thread.

cover of Marketing Action Plan for Freelancers
book site
book site
course
book cover of eiw365
book site

Learn with us! Join a course today.

© This blog and all materials in it are copyright Adrienne Montgomerie on the date of publication. All rights reserved. No portion may be stored or distributed without express written permission. Asking is easy!

Leave a Reply