by Ryan Johnson, I-Tech

When working in a Word Document, its often helpful to see exactly how your text is being formatted. You can do this with the Show/Hide formatting marks function.

To view formatting marks in Microsoft Word, open your document and click on the Home tab.

Then look in the Paragraph group for the Pilcrow (this is also called the paragraph symbol.)

Click the Pilcrow to turn on the formatting marks for your document. Now you can see where paragraphs start or end, and where spaces or tabs appear.

Click the Pilcrow again to hide the formatting marks.