My secretary, Amber1, has typed a letter to Jim Morrison (the new one) who wants to build a studio near the Okefenokee Swamp in South Georgia2. She created two versions: one with the text I directed, and one with a long paragraph in the middle telling Mr. Morrison how glad the Southerners are that he has chosen South Georgia as his recording home. Amber wrote it hoping I would choose her version to send the music star. She only had to type one document:
She printed that one, and selected the paragraph that she knew was inevitably bound for deletion:
With that text selected, she simply used the keyboard combination Ctrl+Shift+H and the text was hidden:
Amber printed that one as well, and submitted them to me for review. This saved her quite a bit of time as she only had to type one document.
To show the hidden text, Amber uses the Show/Hide
button on the standard toolbar. If that button is not shown, it means that it hasn't been used in a while and has been hidden to show the other, more commonly used buttons. At the right end of the toolbar, there's a symbol 
to show these hidden buttons:
Anyway, that
button will toggle showing the hidden characters. Not only does it show the hidden text, but all non-printing characters such as spaces, tabs, and newlines. This is particularly useful in editing documents and aligning text with margins and such:
I hope you have found this tutorial somewhat entertaining and educational. Since I can't regurgitate the latest news, I'll resort to thinking up small bits like this from time to time.
1. I neither have a secretary, nor do I know anyone named Amber.
2. I made this all up.
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