You can insert line break by pressing Shift+Enter. Line break mark or represents the place where line breaks and text starts in the next line. Tab presses are represented with an arrow pointing right: Text between these two signs is defined as a paragraph and has some properties that can be adjusted independently of other text (or paragraphs), like alignment (left, right, centered, justified), spacing before and after paragraph, spacing between the lines, numbering, and so on. This is also the place in the document where you pressed Enter or Return on your keyboard. After this sign, Word starts new paragraph and puts text cursor in new line. Paragraph mark ( ¶ ) or pilcrow represents the end of the paragraph or paragraph break. Let’s me introduce you to the most common ones and what are they used for:ĭots are formatting marks for Spaces and each dot represents position in text where you pressed Space Bar on your keyboard. There are many formatting, or sometimes called non-printing, marks in Word. On the left, under Always show these formatting marks on the screen choose what formatting marks you want to be visible even after turning the button off. Where to choose which formatting mark stay on or off after pressing the ¶ button?ģ.

OFF – turns off the display of formatting marks except for those that you choose to remain visible until you change the options.

ON – turns on the display of all formatting marks,.

Toggling the display of formatting marks has two functions: Typically, Formatting Marks are not visible unless you turn them visible by pressing ¶ on the Home tab in Word:Īlternatively, you can use keyboard shortcut Ctrl + * or Ctrl + Shift + 8 to toggle Show/Hide Formatting Marks on or off.

Without them it would be almost impossible to create our documents in effective way: it would take very long to correct errors that prevent correct alignment of text and objects. These marks are non-printable characters and show us places where we’ve pressed SPACE, TAB, ENTER, or where hidden text or object anchors are. It would be very hard to spot one extra space or place where you accidentally pressed TAB twice instead of once if it weren’t for formatting marks.

If you want Word to correctly align and space your paragraphs, wrap text around objects as you want and to make the report table look exactly as you want to, then you have to make sure you didn’t put extra spaces between words or in cells, that you have paragraph spaced correctly or indentation set up so that your document looks just right. Do not get me wrong as this has nothing to do with grammar, style or spelling. One of the essential rules for effectively creating documents in Word is to write correctly.

Red paragraph symbol in word 2010