I can't figure out how long this has been going on, but it finally started to drive me crazy: in Libre Office writer, absolutely nothing changes when I toggle the "Nonprinting Characters" button. ctrl F10 toggles the button on my toolbar, but also does not reveal any nonprinting characters.
How do I start fixing this?
(Found at http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/1697 )
Check your settings at:
Tools > Options... > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids "Display of"
Check the box for "Paragraph Ends" or whichever non-printing character you want to view or hide by toggling. If all the boxes are unticked, you'd not see any non-printing character (which may explain why nothing changes when you click the button or use
ctrl+F10
).In Draw the only way I managed -- was to copy the 'offending' text out of Draw's text box, paste it into a blank Writer page, do what I had to do while I could see the formatting codes, then paste it back into Draw.