Here’s a Word 2011 document showing invisible characters.
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. Under Always show these formatting marks on the screen, select the check box for each formatting mark that you always want to display regardless if the Show/Hide button is turned. You can set them to always show: Go to File > Options > Display. 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. The Show/Hide button turns hidden characters like spaces, paragraph markers, or tab marks on and off. Step 1: in Word 2007, click Office icon, and then click Word Options in Word 2010/2013, click File tab, and then click Options. Microsoft Word on the Mac has a nice feature that lets you show invisible (non-printing) characters such as returns, tabs, and spaces. Display or hide field codes in Word 2007/2010/2013. Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them. 1) Select the text by dragging through it or double-clicking it. Highlight text in Pages on Mac With Pages open to the document where you want to highlight some text, follow the steps below. 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. This Word tutorial explains how to markup text with a highlighter effect in Word 2011 for Mac (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).
