Microsoft Word includes formatting options that allow you to view all types of normally invisible marks, such as spaces, tabs and paragraphs. For instance, instead of having a blank space in place of ...

If you see spots, and paragraph marks, and other formatting characters in your Microsoft Word documents, making them go away is easy. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

The columns feature built into Word enables you to vary the layouts of your documents, but if something goes wrong then it can be difficult to get the end result you want. Switching on hidden ...

Formatting symbols have suddenly appeared on all my Word documents. What did I do? I've tried Help and Wizard but haven't found a way of hiding them. Christine Highmoor, by email It sounds as though ...

Since Markdown files are pure plain text, they’re incredibly lightweight—often just a few kilobytes, even for lengthy ...

To delete a page in Microsoft Word, you'll need to delete all of the text on the page, including the invisible formatting marks.

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