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Show hidden characters in Outlook

If you are using Outlook, you can quickly hide/show hidden characters like tabs, spaces, line breaks, and paragraph marks by hitting Shift + Control + 8 at the same time.
Rating: 100% positive, 27 total Votes
Categories: outlook shortcut
Added: on Feb 06, 2008 at 8:07 am
Added By: looker
Searches: outlook shortcut hidden character show

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Thanks! This is helpful! I did this on accident. =)
– Added by an anonymous user on Mar 24, 2008 at 1:53 pm
much thanks, quick results - faster than microsoft's help.
– Added by an anonymous user on Jun 09, 2008 at 1:59 am
I've had this "feature" on by accident for a week and I couldn't figure out what the combination of buttons that I actually hit to turn it on was.

Many many thanks!
– Added by an anonymous user on Jan 12, 2009 at 10:50 am
first search on google gave me the answer, definitely faster than Microsoft help
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 26, 2009 at 8:04 am
it is very helpful... thank you
– Added by an anonymous user on Mar 03, 2009 at 5:36 pm
glad you had this hint. it worked!!!
– Added by an anonymous user on Mar 09, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Great Tip - Worked like a charm.
– Added by an anonymous user on May 19, 2009 at 10:41 am
thanks it really helped alot.
– Added by an anonymous user on Aug 21, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Thanks a lot for this tip, I also made it on by mistake and was trying to figure it out on outlook help. But Alas! , search on google led me to this page.
– Added by an anonymous user on Oct 10, 2009 at 4:58 am
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