Microsoft Word has an interesting feature to show and hide text you want. You may be in a situation where you do not want to completely delete the text, but should not have it in the document.

What is hidden text in Word Microsoft Word lets you hide text in Word documents. Let’s assume that you want to keep some paragraphs, but you do not want to show them all the time in your document.

Use hidden text to hide content you’d otherwise have to put in another Microsoft Word document.

Try the hidden text feature in Microsoft Word. I often use this feature when I don't want sensitive information to appear in the final printout.

Since Word normally defaults to show hidden text (that’s why the potentially hidden sentence contains those dots), I now will change the default by going to Word’s default screen: On the toolbar click ...

If you must hide text in Microsoft Word, watch out: both Gmail and Outlook.com will show Hidden Text in plain view, and with Outlook.com, you won't even know until it's too late.

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Show/Hide is a toggle, so a second click rehides all the hidden text when you’re ready to put it out of sight. Viewing all the hidden text can be helpful, but it won’t remove it.

April 20, 2005 at 9:00 a.m. PT Microsoft Word Prevent hidden text from printing in Word While you're in the midst of working on a draft, you may need to print the Word document.

Erase your hidden text in Word fileYou probably e-mail business letters, résumés and personal documents as Word documents. But you may be telling people things that would make your hair curl ...