If ' Show all formatting marks' is checked, none of them will appear when you click to show/hide them: to display some of them all the time, tick their individual checkbox and click OK to save.Then, select the ' Display' settings on the left: You can tell Word 2010 to always show formatting some symbols by clicking File (top left) and choosing Options.You can toggle their visibility even faster by using the Ctrl+Shift+8 keyboard shortcut!.Click on the ' ¶' pilcrow button (Ribbon Home tab) to manually show or hide formatting marks:.Hidden formatting marks let you see whitespace (spaces, tabs, line returns, paragraphs) and file structure (page / section breaks, hidden text, anchors), but won't appear in printed documents.› Word 2010 › Show paragraph symbols and formatting marks in Word 2010