To display or hide formatting marks (e.g., spaces, tabs, and paragraph breaks) in a Microsoft Word document: Word for Windows. In Word 2010, on the File tab, click Options.In Word 2007, from the Office Button menu, select Word Options near the bottom right corner of the menu. An even quicker method of removing formatting in Word and PowerPoint is to select the text and press Ctrl + Spacebar to remove all character formatting or Ctrl + Q to remove just the paragraph formatting.
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To display or hide formatting marks (e.g., spaces, tabs, and paragraph breaks) in a Microsoft Word document: Word for Windows. In Word 2010, on the File tab, click Options.
In Word 2007, from the Office Button menu, select Word Options near the bottom right corner of the menu. Select Display from the listing at the left. In the section titled 'Always show these formatting marks on the screen', check or uncheck the appropriate boxes to view the marks of your choice. To show or hide them all, select Show all formatting marks.
To save your changes, click OK. Word for Mac OS X. From the Word menu, select Preferences.
Select View. In the section titled 'Nonprinting characters', check or uncheck the appropriate boxes to view the marks of your choice.
Check All to see all formatting marks. To save your changes, click OK. You can also toggle between displaying and hiding formatting marks.
To do so:. In Word for Windows, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the paragraph icon. In Word for Mac OS X, click the paragraph icon in the Standard toolbar. If you don't see the icon, from the View menu, choose Toolbars, and then check Standard.
You can spend a lot of time formatting content in a Word document and then even more time trying to get rid of it! You might select the content and click the appropriate icon or choose an item from the Format menu and continue on through the commands. Fortunately, all that work is unnecessary. There are two quick ways to remove formats:. The barebones style is Normal, and that's good to know when you need to get rid of formatting.
Simply reset the content's style to Normal by choosing Normal from the Style control or pressing Ctrl+Shift+N. If you don't mind changing the style, this is an easy way to ditch formatting and start over. If you want to remove only formats applied in addition to a style — without changing the current style — press Ctrl+Spacebar. Related Topics.