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Showing and hiding text formatting

By default, text displayed in the Editor window, of the Editor view, is displayed in WYSIWYG format. This means that any formatting applied to the original document text is visible in the Editor window. For example, text that has bold formatting applied is displayed in bold and underlined text is underlined.

About this task

If you decide not to display text with formatting applied, you can still establish what formatting was originally applied to text as this information is stored in the document formatting tags.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Projects view and select the project you want to work on.
  2. Go to the Files view and double-click the file you want to work on.
  3. Select File > Options.
  4. In the Options dialog, in the navigation tree, select Editor. The Editor settings are displayed on the right.
  5. Formatting display is controlled from the Formatting display style drop-down list, under Side-by-side Editor.
    • If you do not want formatting to be applied to text, select Show all tags but do not show formatting.
    • If you want to display formatting but not standard formatting tags, select Show formatting but hide recognized formatting tags.
    • If you want to display formatting and all formatting tags, select Show all formatting and all tags.
  6. Select OK to save the settings and close the Options dialog.