Go to the Home tab and you’ll find it half way along. So, how did I get to see these funny marks? In Word for both Mac and PC, you can find a button with the paragraph mark on it which will make them display: Show Paragraph marks in Word for PC For example, in this document, I can see that the author has used the Return key to force text to appear on a new page (instead of using Ctrl-Enter to force a page break):Īnd when I’ve done it properly, I can see the page break marked: Why is it useful? It means that if you are editing or otherwise tidying up a document, you can see what’s been done in order to resolve it. Basically, this means that you can see where the author of a document has pressed the Return key or Tab or Space, or inserted a forced break or some other formatting. Word gives you the option to view paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols.

What were all these funny symbols? Where had they come from and, more importantly, how could she get rid of them? Showing paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols All sorts of odd marks had appeared in her Word document. A friend got in touch recently in a bit of a panic.

Word formatting marks key