Use the Reveal Formatting Feature in Word 2010: Reveal Codes in Word

This article examines Reveal codes in Word and explains the main developments, practical implications, and context readers should understand.

Reveal Codes in Word Overview

Technically, WordPerfect will display the same text content and format codes, automatically insert the start code and end the text with the corresponding format. When you display the Reveal Codes window, you will see the characters that mark the code formatted with the text content, and can perform other operations such as inserting or deleting. For example, if you delete the closed code, the entire text will be formatted according to the open code.

In Microsoft Word, the text content and format codes are arranged, arranged and displayed completely separately. Word stores the format information of the text somewhere else, and it is not inserted into the text. Instead, Word monitors the characters and paragraphs of each format applied in the entire document, along with the opening and ending codes.

Meanwhile, WordPerfect has both modes: WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get and Reveal Codes, Word only has WYSIWYG. When highlighting a certain text, we will only see the text without being able to see the surrounding code. However, there is a way to display the format code of the selected text, because Word is not the same as WordPerfect. In Word, we select a text and press Shift + F1, the Formatting Reveal control panel will display the relevant elements like Font, Paragraph, and Section:

And if you want to change the format, you can use the options available in Reveal Formatting:

Select the text to format, click the Font link in the Formatting Reveal panel, the Font display window. Do any changes and click OK.

However, you should not confuse the Formatting Reveal and the function of displaying formatting icons in Word. Press the paragraph symbol in the Paragraph section of the Home tag to display hidden characters such as spaces, tabs, markup characters. Shortcuts are Ctrl + *

Maybe we want to display both Reveal Formatting and hidden special characters to track certain paragraphs in the text to distinguish. Good luck!