Troubleshooting

Revealing Character Formatting

Q1:As a former WordPerfect user, I'm accustomed to WordPerfect's "reveal codes" command, which displays formatting directives hidden in a document, much like HTML tags. When I search through online help, however, there's no mention of Word's reveal codes command.
A1: Word doesn't use WordPerfect-style codes to apply formatting. Instead, it stores formatting for each character with the character itself, and it stores paragraph formatting in the paragraph mark. However, the Reveal Formatting task pane displays the names of styles and direct formatting applied to any character.

Automatically Updating Styles

Q1:When I opened a document that contained a number of custom styles, the formatting changed ...

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