Here’s a Word 2011 document showing invisible characters. While Word, Excel, and PowerPoint offer some of the same shortcuts for common tasks, most below are specific to using Microsoft Word.

So knowing some handy keyboard shortcuts for Word on Mac can save you time. Most of the requests I get on this topic concern turning invisibles off, because since the user often doesn’t know how he turned those invisible characters on, he also doesn’t know how to turn them off. If you’re a fan of Microsoft Word and have installed the Word app on your Mac, you may prefer it over Pages for certain tasks. The best text editing and processing software, Microsoft Word, offers in this standalone version of Office for Mac computers all its greatest. Those characters are just as “charactery” as anything else you type– they take up space, they’re copy and paste-able, you can give them a point size– but they’re invisible, and they don’t print. 8/10 (235 votes) - Download Microsoft Word Mac Free. In the Application menu, click the Office for Mac app ( Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Outlook) you want to create keyboard a shortcut for.

Alt+Shift+< Go to 'Tell me what you want to do' and Smart Lookup (in Word 2016). Click the + sign to add a keyboard shortcut. Alt+Shift+> Go to previous footnote (in Word 2016). Microsoft Word on the Mac has a nice feature that lets you show invisible (non-printing) characters such as returns, tabs, and spaces. From the Apple menu, click System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts. Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them. There’s a keyboard shortcut for toggling invisible characters (like paragraph marks, and spaces, and tabs) in Microsoft Word on a Mac and as far as I know it’s worked in every version, since the very beginning.

Word 2016 shortcuts on a mac