
For instance, to italicise and underline some text, the following code will work:. Click OK and POOF, your text is now gone All I am left with is one paragraph with no sign of the other paragraph. In the Font dialog box, you’ll see the Hidden checkbox in the Effects section.
For instance, this will remove the bold format from the text string: .Bold = Falseįinally, multiple formats can be stacked in the script. Highlight the text that you would like to hide and then right-click on it and choose Font. Likewise, to remove a format the parameter can be switched to “false”.
To double strikethrough: .DoubleStrikethrough = True.
To strikethrough: .Strikethrough = True. This script can be customised by changing the instructions: Press the play button at the top of the window (the green triangle) to run the script. Text = "et al") and replacing it with the text string that you want italicised. Replace:=wdReplaceAllĬustomise the script by deleting the sample text (. 'Insert the text string that needs to be italicised Insert the following code into the module: Sub ItaliciseText() Hit Replace All and the unnecessary double spacing will be removed.Inserting a module in Visual Basic for Applications. Now press the tiny little down arrow at the end of the search box, choose Replace and type a single space in the Replace With box. Turn that feature on and you can easily see where all the hard returns are, letting you remove any that shouldn’t be there.īy the way, do you ever have to edit Word documents from someone who learned to type during the days of typewriters and still insists on putting two spaces after every full-stop? You can easily remove these by pressing Ctrl+F to open the find function and then typing a double space in the search box. Why would you ever want to turn that feature on? It’s handy if you’ve got some odd hard returns in your document, normally as a result of pasting in copy from elsewhere. We’ve circled it in the toolbar below if you’re still struggling to find it:Ĭlick on that and it should turn off all the non-print symbols that have appeared in your document. Make sure you’ve got the Home tab selected in Microsoft Word and then look for a symbol like the one you’re seeing at the end of every paragraph in the Paragraph section of the toolbar. In fact, you can make this problem go away with a single click of the mouse. This is one of the easiest tech fixes possible. What has happened? And how do you make it all go away?
And there’s some weird symbol at the end of every paragraph, too. Is your Word document looking a bit weird? Where once there was beautiful white nothingness, there’s now dots between words.