Working With Hidden Text in Word Documents

Hiding text in a Word document Word allows you to hide text in your document. The text remains a part of the document, but it doesn’t appear unless you opt to display it.

Combined with printing options, this can be handy for a number of different reasons. For example, you may wish to print two differing versions of a document. In one, you can omit portions of text. There’s no need to save two copies on your hard drive.

To hide text, follow these steps:

1. Highlight the portion you wish to hide

2. Right-click and select Font…

3. In the Effects section, select Hidden

4. Click OK


The hidden text may appear on the computer screen, depending on your view options. To toggle the display of hidden text, follow these steps:

1. Click Tools

2. Select Options

3. Open the View tab

4. Under Formatting marks, select or deselect Hidden

5. Click OK