WORD TIP: REVEALING FORMATTING
Q. How can I reveal
codes in Word?
A. Since MS Word does not store formatting in codes, there is no "reveal
codes" feature. However, all Word formatting properties can be revealed.
Use the following MS Word features to understand which formatting commands
are affecting your text:
Context Sensitive Help: Press Shift+F1 and then click on text to reveal
the paragraph and font formatting properties of the text.
Show/Hide: Click the Show/hide button on the formatting toolbar to display
non printing characters such as hard returns, line breaks, tabs, spaces,
hard hyphens, and hard spaces.
Style Area: To display the name of current paragraph style to the left
of each paragraph choose Tools4Options4View. Specify a measurement in
the Style Area Width spin box and then choose OK. If the style names do
not appear, choose View4Normal to switch to Normal view.
Formatting Toolbar: The current style, typeface, and point size of text
display on the Formatting toolbar. Buttons for features such as bold,
italics, underline, alignment, bullets, and numbering will appear "pushed
in" for features that are applied to text. If the formatting toolbar
is not currently showing choose View4Toolbars4Formatting to display it.
Ruler Bar: The current top and bottom margin settings are represented
by the gray area on the vertical ruler. The left and right margins, left
indent, right indent, first line indent, and hanging indent settings are
represented by buttons (that can be dragged to change the settings) on
the horizontal ruler bar. If the ruler is not showing, choose View4Ruler
to turn it on. (The vertical ruler does not display in Normal view.)
