

With the hyperlink still selected, click Font Color (Font group), and choose a new font color, such as Automatic. If you want to toggle it on, click View and select Ruler in Show. Select the hyperlink and click Underline in the Font group to remove the underline. But in Word 2016 it doesn’t show by default.

Here’s a Word 2011 document showing invisible characters. Ruler is a useful tool to make the layout of your document tidy and well-organized.
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Most of the requests I get on this topic concern turning invisibles off, because since the user often doesn’t know how he turned those invisible characters on, he also doesn’t know how to turn them off. Those characters are just as “charactery” as anything else you type– they take up space, they’re copy and paste-able, you can give them a point size– but they’re invisible, and they don’t print. Click the Home tab followed by the Show/Hide (Ctrl+) button in the Paragraph group to view the marked paragraph break on the page. Select Home, then expand the Font section. Microsoft Word on the Mac has a nice feature that lets you show invisible (non-printing) characters such as returns, tabs, and spaces. Windows Version If you wish to hide text, select the text you wish to hide.

Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them. There’s a keyboard shortcut for toggling invisible characters (like paragraph marks, and spaces, and tabs) in Microsoft Word on a Mac and as far as I know it’s worked in every version, since the very beginning.
