Maybe I can contribute something here finally. I don't know about Word
97, but in Word 7.0 for Office 95 these codes can be seen by going to
the Tools menu, selecting Options, and then selecting the View Tab. This
will give you a dialog box showing checkboxes to turn on non-printing
characters as well as a section with checkboxes to show things like
bookmarks, object anchors, field codes and others. Hope this helps with
Word 97.....
                                                Don Butler
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                                                Level One Communications
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>>The jist of this thread/conversation has been a problem with Word 97
>>changing the format of TEXT when it is moved. (As the subject line
>>implies) It seems there is some confusion over what formatting is.
>
>>Word has three different types of formatting.
>>Page formatting (left/right margins, paper size, etc)
>>Paragraph formatting (indents, line spacing, tab settings, etc)
>>and TEXT formatting (bold, underlined, font, italic, size)
>
>>A STYLE is a combination of paragraph AND text formats which
>>Word "remembers" so that you can quickly change the appearance
>>blocks of text all at once.
>
>>Now that the stage is set....
>
>>If you cut (or copy) text into an area that has a style applied to
>>it, then the inserted text will pick up the formatting dictated
>>by the style.
>
>>If you cut (or copy) text into an area that has just been formatted
>>by just using the format toolbar, then the inserted text will retain
>>it's old formatting.
>
>>Several people have alluded to viewing the hidden codes which
>>turn on or turn off the TEXT attributes (font changes, bold on, etc.)
>>But no one has actually said how it can be done.
>

>>They are not in the end of paragraph mark.  That just stores paragraph
>>format settings, nothing about the text itself.  And right mouse
>>clicking will not show anything (text-wise) that is not already visible
>>on the format tool bar.
>
>>So, IF it's possible to "see" these hidden codes, then please tell
>>us how to do it.
>
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