Where is the "Reveal Codes" in Word?

[Greg]

I remember back when I used WordPerfect, there was something called reveal
codes that showed all the raw formatting of a document. I know Word has
something like that too but cant find it or figure out what Word calls it,
where is this? I have a certain font being used in my document that I cannot
locate but need to remove and this is the only way I can think of to find
this used font. Thanks!

 

[Andy]

I remember back when I used WordPerfect, there was something called reveal
codes that showed all the raw formatting of a document. I know Word has
something like that too but cant find it or figure out what Word calls it,
where is this? I have a certain font being used in my document that I cannot
locate but need to remove and this is the only way I can think of to find
this used font. Thanks!

 

[Idaho Word Man]

Actually, Word does not have a "reveal codes" option such as you describe.
The way to delete a font in Word is not to find some hidden code and delete
it. Instead, you need to apply the font you want to the offending passage.
Just select the passage (start a character or two before and end a character
or two after, perhaps) and apply the font you want.

Fred

 

[Stefan Blom]

Or if it is a big document, you may want to use Find and Replace to replace
the font.

 

[Graham Mayor]

There are no codes to reveal. Word is a style based application.

You can find the font by using the Find function CTRL+F.

If that doesn't locate it, you can search the metadata of a Word 2003
document using the script editor ALT+SHIFT+F11, or if the document is in
Word 2007 format, you can open the document with WinRar and search the XML
files that make up the document.

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[Greg]

im pretty sure i have seen it before in the past, are you sure? Ive tried
changing all the fonts on that page to 1 font (which it suppose to be
already) but its showing it all as being the same font already too. Im
getting this problem when converting to postscript and distilling it. There
is a protected font being used that i cant find any other way

 

[Beth Melton]

There's Reveal Formatting and Reveal Field Codes. For Reveal Formatting, the
easiest way is to press Shift+F1 to open the Reveal Formatting task pane.
You can use it to determine the formatting of a selection or if you're
trying to determine differences you see in formatting you can use the
"Compare to another selection" option.

To view field codes in a document you can press Alt+F9 to toggle them
on/off.

As for finding the font, I'd use Find. Press F5 to display the Find dialog
box, on the Find tab click the More button, and use the Format button at the
bottom to select your font.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In general, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RevealCodes.htm. When you
use Find to search for a font, make sure you let Word search the entire
document. I have seen cases where the found text was in an unused header or
footer: that is, "Different first page" or "Different odd and even" had at
one time been enabled and text placed in the First Page Header/Footer or
Even Page Header/Footer. Then either the option was disabled or the section
in question didn't have that particular header/footer, so the text was not
visible to casual inspection but did turn up in a search. You'll recognize
this by the fact that it is displayed in a pane at the bottom of the page
(like the footnote pane when you're in Normal view). If this turns out to be
the case, you'll have to reenable that option (or add enough pages to the
section to make the header/footer display) in order to find and correct the
text in question.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org