How to show hidden characters in the Description screen

Target audience:
Users who want to view formatting characters like spaces, tabs, and page breaks while editing topic descriptions.

Core purpose/goal:
To explain how to enable or disable the visibility of hidden characters in the Description screen for better formatting control.

Steps to show hidden characters

1. Place your cursor inside the Description screen.
2. Go to the Layout tab in the ribbon.
3. In the Description Screen Options group, enable the option to Show hidden characters.

Once enabled, the following elements will become visible:

• Enter (line breaks)
• Tab
• Space
• Page break
• Optional hyphen
• Hidden text

To hide these characters again

• Simply disable the same option in the Layout > Description Screen Options group.

Important notes

• This setting affects only the on-screen view.
  It does not modify the actual content or formatting in the file.
• Useful for checking layout issues or cleaning up formatting before publishing.