Jack S Berger wrote:
Does your word processor have the equivalent of the "Reveal Codes" function in WordPerfect?
View -> Nonprinting characters will turn on or off viewing of the very few internal codes that OpenOffice uses.
Though many Word Perfect users find this hard to understand and to believe, most modern Word Processors such as OpenOffice.org Writer, MS Word, and most modern Desktop Publishers don’t use codes internally to turn on and off features in a text stream.
This means that many of the problems that in WordPerfect can be solved by finding a character in the text stream and removing it or changing it just don’t happen in these word processors because no such characters exit. For example, instead of codes in the text turning on standard features of a paragraph, internally the text paragraph points to a structure of properties, and this structure can be viewed through Format -> Paragraph. The properties you see there and their settings are the low-level settings within Writer for paragraphs, without use of codes. Individual ranges of text can also have properties applied to them which overwrite paragraph properties without codes to turn them off or on.
There are some versions of a macro at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ which to some degree emulates Reveal Codes, that is, it attempts to show how the internal text stream might appear if OpenOffice.org Writer did use codes internally.
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