Can I print formatting marks in Word documents?

[Halldór]

I'm teaching students how to use Word and Excel and other Office programs and
I've been trying to print out the formatting marks (eg. Paragraph Marks) to
help me grade their projects.

Is there any way to get Word to print out formatting marks? I've looked all
over the options window without luck.

 

[bxb7668]

I don't know of any way to print the formatting marks from within
Word. The only, bad, option that I can think of is to do screen
prints.

Brian

 

[Suzan]

I asked this question a while back and here is the response I received:

The real paragraph marks can't be printed, but you can place the visible
character ¶ before each one to fake it.

Open the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, enter the code for a
paragraph mark, (^p)

In the Replace with box, first enter the character by holding down the Alt
key while you type 0182 on the number pad (with NumLock turned on). After
that type the code for "the found text", ^& , so the content of the box is

¶^&

Click the Find Next and Replace or Replace All button.

If the last line of any of your paragraphs goes almost to the right margin,
the character might show up on the last line and might take the last word
with it, so your line breaks won't be the same. If you're printing the
documentation, you might be able to fix that by adjusting the paragraph's
right indent.

Hope this help!

Suzan