Please apply the utility by clicking Enterprise > Display Settings in View group, see screenshot:Ģ. Kutools for Word, a handy add-in, includes groups of tools to ease your work and enhance your ability of processing word document. Kutools gathering formatting marks and document content display setting together, it’s more convenient for users. Show or hide formatting marks in Word with Kutools Note: If you want to show or hide all formatting marks, you can click under Home tab, or you can press shortcut Ctrl+* to switch showing or hiding. Step 2: click Display, in Always show these formatting marks on the screen section, check to show them in documents or you can check Show all formatting marks to show all formatting marks in document. Show or hide formatting marks in Word 2007/2010/2013Ĭlick Officeicon and then click Word Options in Word 2007 Ĭlick Filetab and then click Options in Word 2010/2013. The keyboard shortcut of showing all formatting marks: Ctrl+* or Shift+Ctrl+8 Now that we’ve seen how to turn on and off the display of formatting marks, let’s find out what they all mean.Step 2: click View tab, check any formatting marks in Formatting marks section to show them in document, or you can check All item to show all kinds of formatting marks in document.

What Do The Formatting Marks Mean In Word 2010? You know what? I just wouldn’t change the Word Options from their default settings. you might have guessed that the Show all formatting marks check box in Word Options is pretty much redundant because we have a much easier tool to use on the ribbon that does the same thing: the Show formatting marks button.

if you put a check in any of the other formatting boxes, those kinds of formatting will display all the time – whether you have toggled the Show formatting marks button on or off.

If you go back and uncheck that box, it hides all formatting marks and is the same as toggling them off using the Show formatting marks button again. This is like clicking on the Show formatting marks button in the ribbon.

if you put a check in the Show all formatting marks box and click OK, you will see all formatting marks in your document.

Their use is not intuitive and it goes something like this:

On ms word formatting marks are