However, you may decide that you have additional styles that you would like to include, either in combination with built-in styles or instead of them. In preparing documents for Web display, we use reveral codes as the documents are just text. Reveal codes will never be added to Word. Reveal codes were established in the DOS version of word processors which could not show the results on screen. Adding reveal codes would add to the length of lines, paragraphs, and pages.
Word displays text as a graphic element.
Therefore, the code is revealed, because it is shown just as it would print. There is an interesting feature along the lines of reveal codes unofficially called the Format Sniffer . This displays a pop-up window showing all the formatting of the character selected. You can click around as this tool stays turned on. Click the button again to turn it off.