
Here’s a Word 2011 document showing invisible characters. You can also toggle between displaying and hiding formatting marks. FWIW: these steps worked at the time of writing but (as you may know) things change with Microsoft applications, so you may have to experiment a little. In the section titled 'Nonprinting characters', check or uncheck the appropriate boxes to view the marks of your choice.
#Ms word turn off formatting marks how to
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. To turn on or turn off text boundaries, use the Text boundaries option in Microsoft Word. 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.
#Ms word turn off formatting marks mac
Microsoft Word on the Mac has a nice feature that lets you show invisible (non-printing) characters such as returns, tabs, and spaces. In Microsoft Word 2007 when you select a piece of text, a pop-up toolbar will display containing the common font formatting tools like font-name, font-size, bold, italic, etc.

Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them.

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.
