Presentation

Once installed and activated, add-on will appear under the Add-ons menu from Google Docs.

Unlike software with built in “show hidden characters” features, Show add-on will actually modify the original document by adding the below characters prior to or in place of the non-visible one. Result is that deleting the visible symbol will not delete the actual non-visible mark, unless you press Delete twice.

Show add-on allows to revert changes by either using Google Docs native undo or History commands, or one of its multiple Hide functions.

Symbols used for non-visible characters are:

⏎ Simple Line Feed (Usually from a Shift-Return)

¶ End of Paragraph (Usually from Return)

❡ End of an empty Paragraph

↡ Page feed (Usually from a Ctrl or Cmd-Return)

▪ Simple Space

￫ Tabulation

￬ Vertical Tabulation (now deactivated, as docs encodes these a Line Feeds)

○ No-Break Space

◦ Narrow No-break Space

⊝    Non-breaking hyphens

⫾      Soft hyphens (a.k.a. shy, or syllable hyphen)