I’ll also talk about another feature in Word called Reveal Formatting, which lets you see all of the formatting applied to any selected text. These formatting marks include tabs, hyphens, spaces, paragraph marks, hidden text, page breaks, etc. In this article, I’m going to tell you how to display formatting marks in Word documents. This is good because it makes it easier to edit the formatting without losing any text. In Word, the text of the document is stored separately from the formatting. In order to fix these types of problems, you have to sometimes manually edit the formatting of the document. 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 text keeps breaking off onto another page when you need it to be on the same page. Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business 2011: In Mac Word 2011 can I show paragraph marks and/or line endings without showing the ugly dot between each word. Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them. Short Answer: Command-8 (⌘-8) 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 beginning.
