Printing Format Symbols

[Infexus Bytez]

How can I print my document with all the format symbols included? Everytime
I turn them on, and send the print job, it just prints the standard document.
I'm sure there's a hotkey or something. Anyone?

 

[Jerry]

If by "format symbols" you mean the dots for spaces, arrows for tabs, etc.,
there ain't no "hotkey or something" to print them. Those formatting marks
are "non-printing characters." You can take a screen shot of the page and
print it, one page at a time, but tabs and spaces and returns don't print.

 

[Jay Freedman]

There is no hotkey. What you call "format symbols" are what Word calls
"nonprinting characters", precisely because they don't print
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm).

Although you could tediously replace all the nonprinting characters with
printable characters of the same glyphs
(http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/InsertSpecChars.htm), that would change
the document's line breaks and other layout. A better idea is to take screen
shots with the nonprinting characters showing, and print those. A tool like
Snagit (http://www.techsmith.com) will make that job easier.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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