Word 2007 and above: The Show/Hide ¶ button is in the Paragraph group on the Home tab, and its Super ToolTip provides additional information.
If you hover your mouse over it, the ScreenTip says Show/Hide ¶. This feature helps diagnose formatting problems ('why is this paragraph so funky and the other one's okay?'). Word 2003 and earlier: By default, the Formatting toolbar has a button with the ¶ icon. Brilliant! (This works better if you have a block of text highlighted rather than just having your cursor sitting in the middle.)Īnd here's the best part (and unless I'm mistaken, WordPerfect won't even do this): You can compare the formatting between two different sections of text. Here's a nice touch: You see how the section headings (Font, Alignment, etc.) are hyperlinked blue underlining)? That means that, if you want to change any settings, you can simply click on that hyperlink, and Word will take you directly to the appropriate menu. How do you see this magic pane? Press SHIFT-F1 in Word 2007 and up. If you highlight a block of text (or even put your cursor in the middle of a word), Reveal Formatting will tell you how that text is formatted - what font, what paragraph settings (indentation, alignment/justification, etc.), what paper size and margins the document has, everything.
