>Well I am another one who can't help put my $0.02 in on the whole Revel
>Codes debate.  Actually rather then beating a dead horse I am hoping
>that the Word advocates can assist me.

>I was/am a die hard WordPerfect user (since Dos 4.x).  About a year or
>two ago my company switched from WordPerfect to Word 6.0 for Windows.  I
>thought I was tough to convert from WP to Word, however the 300+ people
>I support were even worse.  Anyway...what I use and find the Reveal
>Codes feature in WordPerfect to be far superior to those of Word is when
>I am troubleshooting.
>
>For example, if I am assisting a user with one of their documents it is
>much easier for me to "see" what they did if I can use the Reveal Codes
>feature.  I can then easily remove the code.  This works far better than
>the undo feature since you have to undo everything before the "code" you
>want to undo and then of course, redo it all.  This is just one
>example.  The main complaint that I hear is is by the secretary who has
>to "fix/edit" documents created by someone else (who obviously doesn't
>know proper keyboarding techniques).  The reveal codes feature makes
>this easier for them to identify how the document was created use of
>spaces rather than tabs, tabs rather than indents, not using styles,
>etc. then global search & replace to fix (provided the creator was
>consistent).   Well I guess you get the idea.....
>
>If anyone out there has any tips or tricks on how they compensate for
>lack of the reveal codes feature, I would be interested.  You can post
>replies to the group or to my email address.
>
>Thanks
>
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>Cathy, my 2 cents-worth follows (South African cents - not worth as much as
>US) ...

>Since your users have to use Word here is what I would suggest.  For spaces
rather than tabs, tabs rather than indents, and such things, click on
the backwards P "show/hide all nonprinting characters".  This provides
all you need to see spaces/tabs/indents/proper paragraph marks vs.
newlines, etc.  It does not help you with character formatting - bold,
underline, etc, or character styles.

For problems with paragraph styles, go into normal view, click Tools -
Options ... - View tab, and make "Style area width" 1in or so.  Close
options and you will find a column showing the styles of all paragraphs
(you can resize it with the mouse).

For all other problems the best choice is the help arrow (arrow with a
question mark) - click it and click on text to see all its attributes,
paragraph and character, from styles and direct.  Most novice users will
have applied all formatting directly and not bothered with styles.  This
help arrow is widely felt to be less useful than WP reveal codes ... but
you're stuck with it.

Don't mess about with the undo button.

regards
Joe