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cedi0003
Copper Contributor
Sep 28, 2024

¶/show-all: get more selective?

I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, and I might have even asked this somewhere previously but...

 

Is there anyway at all to get more fine control over "show all"/ctrl-*/non-printing-characters/¶?

 

Specifically, it's my dream to show page-breaks and column breaks but *not* to show spaces between each word. This would just be a nice always-on option to have transparent access to formatting. As it is, the space dots make text difficult to read.

 

I'm open to VBA and outside of the box solutions. Maybe I could even edit my font to eliminate whatever symbol the space is using?

  • cedi0003 

    You can fine-tune in the Windows version using File > Options > Display.

    There are individual controls for many formatting marks. Unfortunately, page breaks/column breaks/section breaks are not ones set for individual controls.

     

    There are a number of vba choices for ActiveWindow.View.

    but I do not know that any of them control this.

     

     

  • Charles_Kenyon's avatar
    Charles_Kenyon
    Bronze Contributor

    cedi0003 

    You can fine-tune in the Windows version using File > Options > Display.

    There are individual controls for many formatting marks. Unfortunately, page breaks/column breaks/section breaks are not ones set for individual controls.

     

    There are a number of vba choices for ActiveWindow.View.

    but I do not know that any of them control this.

     

     

    • cedi0003's avatar
      cedi0003
      Copper Contributor
      Ah! For some reason my memory was that there was no control at all over this. Now I can see that there is almost full control over this -- except for the thing I want (breaks).

      I think the situation is probably hopeless but I did explore ActiveWindow.View. This did nothing:

      Sub ShowAllNoSpaces()
      ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowAll = True
      ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowSpaces = False
      End Sub

      Presumably because ShowAll is its own property, not just a command to show each type of marker.

      Not sure what "ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowOptionalBreaks" does, but doesn't seem to help here. Oh well!

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