Are you like me and love to have more control over your formatting?  Or do you simply want to get rid of those stupid “Backwards P’s” all through your Word document?

Well information is power… and Word 2007 (just like its predecessors) can give you plenty of information about how your document is formatted.  The problem is, by default, all that information is hidden.  And sometimes you can accidentally turn it on when you don’t want it there!

So… if you want to turn your formatting codes on or off in Word 2007, it is really simple.

1) Make sure you are on the “Home” tab in the Ribbon

2) Look for the “Paragraph” group

3) You will see a funny looking symbol that looks like a backwards “P” (… click on that.

Or, you could just use the shortcut, which is…

“Ctrl+*”

So there you go – how easy is that!

’till next time!
TNP