Colored formatting marks

[Guest]

I would like to show the formatting marks in red so they stand out. I can do
a find for a particular mark and replace the formatting (color) for each
instance automatically. But is there any way to do this for ALL formatting
marks?

 

[Guest]

Hi hmm...

What do you mean by "formatting marks"? Tabs, paragraph marks and such?

If so, you cannot give tabs a red color in such a way that the color is
visible. You can give tabs a red highlight, but I cannot imagine why you
would want to do that since the highlight will be printed as well.

Paragraph marks can have a foreground (font) color, but can't be highlighted.
So: no, there is no way to do this for ALL formatting marks?

Good luck,
Cooz

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you're really determined, this can be done with Find and Replace. Search
for a space, tab (^t), or paragraph mark (^p) and replace with ^& (Find What
Text), formatted as Font color: Red.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Tony Jollans]

You can format a tab as red but it still appears as black on the screen - at
least it does on mine.

I must also add that any technique of doing this is not formatting the marks
themselves - it is formatting the underlying document and not really
advisable.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I confess I tested only with spaces. It doesn't work here with tabs, either.
Interestingly, although you can select a paragraph mark and apply a font
color, the replace operation doesn't do this. I agree that this is not
advisable, though, and formatting paragraph marks is especially inadvisable
because it will affect autonumbering.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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