Few users know that Word, Microsoft’s famous document drafting software, allows you to hide text . This can be useful for adding some notes to make invisible, or perhaps not temporarily showing paragraphs during a presentation. Today we will therefore see how to best use this function.
Content index
- How to hide text in Word
- How to show hidden text in Word
- Print the hidden text with Word
- How to remove hidden text in a document to share with Word
How to hide text in Word
The operations to be performed to hide the text in Word are absolutely simple . In fact, all you need to do is type the word / phrase (or paragraph) normally and then complete the following procedure immediately.
- Select the word / phrase to hide
- Right click to bring up the formatting menu
- Click on “Font …”
- In the new screen that appears, in the character section, check the item “Hidden”
- Confirm with “OK”
How to show hidden text in Word
Thanks to the options dedicated to the “paragraph” , it will be possible to show all the hidden texts in just one click. In this way, they can be highlighted again and possibly made visible by repeating the steps seen above.
To show all the hidden texts just click on the “Show / Hide” symbol on the “Home” tab in the options menu at the top.
Alternatively, it will still be possible to act in the following way.
- Click on “File” at the top left
- Continue with “Options” and then with “View”
- Uncheck “Hidden text”
Print hidden text with Word
During the printing phase, you can also decide whether to print the document by showing (or keeping invisible) the hidden text, a very useful option for keeping a personal copy (perhaps with notes) and one to share with other users.
- Click on “File” at the top left
- Continue with “Options” and then with “View”
- Add the check to “Print hidden text”
How to remove hidden text in a document to share with Word
In case you need to share a file with hidden text, it will still be necessary to consider that anyone, by carrying out the operations seen above, will be able to peek into the aforementioned text. For this reason, if you have to share the document, we recommend exporting it to PDF and then sending it .
- Click on “File” at the top left
- Continue with “Save as”
- Choose “Download as PDF”
This will turn the document into a PDF file and cannot be manipulated to show the text.
As the only alternative, you will need to completely remove the previously hidden text. In this way, however, it will no longer be possible to recover it. However, you can still create a copy and then edit only the one you want to share.
- Click on “Replace” at the top right
- Continue with “More …”
- Open the “Format” drop-down menu at the bottom right
- Select “Font”
- Check the “Hidden” item in “Effects”
- Conclude with “OK”
