Sometimes people complain that they are seeing the hidden formatting characters on emails they’re trying to send. And then they are worried that their customers will also see said formatting marks. While I can explain that the customer will only see the text and not the marks, it’s actually much easier to just solve the problem.

Word 2003 had it nice and easy – just click on the standard toolbar Paragraph Mark. But with 2007, everything is hidden or moved. Don’t get me wrong – I like 2007 so far, but finding various tasks that used to be easy to explain are now hidden away somewheres.

And finding the key combination to reset this is difficult because NO ONE WRITES ABOUT IT.

So here’s the key combination:
Alt + Shift + 8. Just press the magic keys somewhere in your word document (or in the body of an email) and like magic (sense a theme going on?) they show/hide at your command.