Printing Invisible Characters...

Good Morning:
For training purposes, Is there a way to print the invisible characters in an InDesign document?
I need to be able to show what characters are being used to demonstrate things like using the tab character, right indent tab character, indent to here, space, em space, etc...
Please and thanks!
Theresa

Yes, Peter, you are correct. I need to be able to show examples of "good" and "less good" methods of typesetting. The screen capture works, but I was hoping to avoid taking all the screen shots. I would love to be able to print out a copy of the document with all of the invisible characters showing that I could demonstrate to our designers where the methods used could be improved. See example below:
This is an example of a hanging indent being done using a "less than productive" method...
Notice the manual line breaks followed by a tab character to create the indent on the next line. (GRRRRRR....)
This is an example of a hanging indent being done using a “cleaned-up” method...
By using the “Indent to Here” character after the first tab, all of the remaining lines in the paragraph will line up with that space
regardless of the length of the line of text.
This is just one of MANY examples that I have of mind-numbing methods that have been used.
I know that in the Export to PDF dialog there is an option to include visible guides and baseline grids. I was hoping there was an option for "Print Invisible Characters".
Thanks for all your help!!
Theresa

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