Mike Buraczewski wrote:
>
> The reason that Word does not have reveal codes is that they
> are unnecessary.

Mike,

Unnecessary?  I don't think so....

To illustrate:
Go in to the middle of a paragraph in a Word document and select
2,3, or a dozen words.  Now turn on bold, then turn on underlining,
now turn off bold, now turn on italics and turn off underlining, and
finally turn off the italics.

Even though they are now inactive, ALL those codes are -=STILL=-
embedded in the document (you can prove this by using the undo button
to backup through all those changes.)  But there is  NO way to see
or - more importantly - *remove* all the crud that is hidden in there.

Granted, that's a pretty extreme example-- but the point is, that quite
often people will add some type of emphasis to a doc and then change
their mind.  All those codes REMAIN part of the document.  They add
to the size of the file and -worse - they are still hiding in
there and can cause unexpected and confusing changes to a document
when you attempt to edit in the vicinity of those hidden codes.

--
Jim Meagher
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