How do I show hidden text in a table?

This shows your hidden text. To display all the formatting marks, click Home > Show/Hide. You can also hit Ctrl+Shift+8 if you prefer.

How do I show hidden text in a table in Word?

Hiding and Displaying Hidden Text

1. Display the Word Options dialog box. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options.
2. Click Display at the left side of the dialog box. (See Figure 1.)
3. Click the Hidden Text check box. Make sure it is empty.
4. Click on OK.

How do I stop text from showing in table of contents?

Instead of modifying the properties of the style, I stumbled across a very easy way to do this:

1. Highlight the text.
2. Go to ‘References’
3. Click on the ‘Add Text’ pull-down menu.
4. Check Do Not Show in Table of Contents.

How do you hide a paragraph?

To hide text in a Microsoft Word document on a Windows computer:

1. Highlight the portion of text that you want to hide.
2. Right-click the highlighted text, then select Font.
3. In the Font dialog box, go to the Font tab.
4. In the Effects section, select the Hidden check box.
5. Select OK.

How do you turn on Show hide formatting in Word?

Press Ctrl + * to display or hide the formatting symbols.

What is the shortcut for Show hide?

If you are loathe to remove your hands from the keyboard in order to use the mouse, you might want to memorize a quick little shortcut: Ctrl+* (that’s the asterisk), which can also be written as Shift+Ctrl+8. This shortcut key toggles the Show/Hide tool on and off.

How do you hide paragraph marks in Word?

Have you ever opened up a Word document to find it full of paragraph marks and other symbols?

1. From the File tab, select Options.
2. Click the Display tab.
3. In the section Always show these formatting marks on the screen, un-check everything except Object Anchors.
4. Press OK.

How do I collapse a paragraph in Word?

Collapse or expand parts of a document

1. Place your cursor in the heading.
2. On the Home tab, click the arrow in the Paragraph group.
3. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the checkbox next to Collapsed by default.
4. Click OK.

Why is text appearing in my Table of Contents?

Typically, a heading style has been applied to the paragraph containing the text or image, and thus it gets reported in the TOC where the TOC is set up to display text in several levels of headings. Changing the paragraph’s style back to a body text style then updating the TOC solves that problem.

Why is my Table of Contents showing text?

To double-check, click in some of your normal text (in the body of your document) that is showing up in the table of contents. Press Shift-F1 to display formatting source. What does the box that pops up tell you about the Style for the paragraph.

How can you hide or display paragraph marks in a document?

To show or hide paragraph marks and other nonprinting symbols in Word using a keyboard shortcut, press Ctrl + Shift + 8 (the asterisk key at the top of the keyboard). When you display formatting symbols, Word will also display manual page breaks and section breaks in your document.

How do you show paragraphs?

1. Click File > Options to open the Word Options dialog box. 2. In the Word Options dialog box, please click Display in left bar, and then check Paragraph marks option in the Always show these formatting marks on the screen section.