27th September 1999
You're typing along, and upon moving your cursor to another spot, your text starts showing up in another font. Has this ever happened to you? This is why I always encourage users to apply formatting to a document AFTER all the data has been entered. You may choose to format on-the-fly, but do you know what codes are still lingering? Word Perfect has it all over Microsoft Word when it comes to revealing hidden codes. However, there's another way to view "hidden" formatting. From Word's menu, select 'Help' and 'What's This?' -- then left-click on any data in your document. You'll see a "cartoon balloon" pop up, showing the details for that particular object (or character). NOTE: this may not work in all versions of Microsoft Word.