How and Why You Should Use Hidden Text in Word

In recent weeks, we have begun to put together a series of tricks in which Microsoft Word is the protagonist. All of these techniques are designed to improve your interaction with this program, as well as so that you learn how to perform new actions that make it easier to use.

Today we are going to look at the reasons why you should use hidden text in Word. and, of course, how to use this feature when creating documents. So let’s start with the basics, what is hidden text in Word? Basically it is text that remains completely hidden when read, printed or sent..

It may seem that its usefulness is zero, but it is not. Hidden text performs a fairly simple and key functionality in Word documents i.e. when printing documents, this text is used to be able to make copies for different audiences without the need to create templates.

One document is what is needed to make these copies, because You will only need to mark as hidden text the words, phrases, paragraphs or elements that you want to remove from life when printing this document. With that in mind, this is the most interesting feature for any teacher.

Of course, it is useful not only for people who have this profession, since with its help you can, for example, create a single document format and, logically, make it a different design. Plus, it can also be used for the basics: hiding information you don’t want other people to see.

With all this in mind, this is used by setting the font to be used in the document. To do this, you need to open a document, in the fonts section, you will need to click on the dropdown on the right and after that you will need to adjust the hidden font..

Using hidden text in Word is as simple as checking the “hidden” box, after which all the text you write is completely hidden.. Come on, you have no losses when using it. We leave you with the photo above, in which you can take a closer look at the feature set up to start writing hidden text in a Word document.