You can hide text and unhide it manually to determine what appears on-screen and in print. It’s important to note that hiding text affects the document’s layout and page flow.

It’s easy to hide text in Word. You just assign the Hidden format. You can hide anything, but most likely, you’ll hide confidential or otherwise sensitive data.

If Formatting marks or or non-printing characters are turned on in Word, it displays hidden characters such as Tab characters, Spaces, Paragraphs marks, Hidden text, Optional hyphens, etc.