How to hide the Formatting Marks in a MS Word 7 Document

You can hide the formatting marks before printing.

Hide formatting

  • Open the Word document which contains the formatting marks.

  • Click on “Home” tab and then click on “Show/Hide” icon in the “paragraph” box


Hide selected formatting marks

  • Open the Word document which contains the formatting marks and click the Office button. Then click on “Word option” .



  • Highlight and select “Display”.



  • Then remove check marks in the "Always show these Formatting Marks on the Screen" list and click "OK."