Working With Hidden Text in Word Documents

The hidden text feature in Microsoft Word allows you to hide text in a document. The text remains a part of the document, but it doesn’t appear unless you choose to display it.

Combined with printing options, this feature can be handy for several reasons. The most obvious is that you can print two or more versions of a document from one file. In one, you can omit portions of text by hiding them. There's no need to save two copies on your computer.

To hide text in a Microsoft Word document on a Windows computer:

To show the text, you merely reverse the process. Because you can't see hidden text, select the entire document by pressing Ctrl+A, then right-click on any text and select Font to open the dialog box that allows you to un-check the hidden-text feature.

You can print the document with or without the hidden text.