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MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / February 2004Formatting behind an arrow symbol?
My supervisor and I are formatting handbooks done up in Word 2000. There is a piece of formatting we need that we are currently resorting to copying from one doct to another. I'll try to explain and hope like heck the explanation can be understood <g>! With all the formatting symbols visible turned on, this mark looks like the arrow that seem to appear on all the ENTER keys on standard keyboards. What it does is does a carriage return without doing a real carriage return - meaning the next text after that appears on next line but the style isn't changed. I hope that's clear (?) We'd both like to know how to invoke that symbol from the pulldown menus but we don't know what it is. Thank you! That symbol is the "end of line" mark, which moves to the next line but does not create a new paragraph. It is not on any menu, but is inserted by holding down the shift key while hitting Enter. If you see it on every line, chances are the original typist was not aware of Word's "wrap" capability--Word starts a new line when it hits the right margin. Most of these marks are quite unnecessary. You can get rid of them by using the Replace function: replace the mark with a space. > My supervisor and I are formatting handbooks done up in > Word 2000. There is a piece of formatting we need that we [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Thank you! Thank you both so much!! It is a character very useful in the few instances in our elections manuals that have subsection codes (in [] brackets) right underneath pertinent paragraphs that _do_ need to go in same paragraph but on a new line. When we just hit enter, the paragraph styles take effect so this was vital for us to learn. Thank you both so kindly! Diana. >-----Original Message----- >That symbol is the "end of line" mark, which moves to the next line but does [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > >. >Thank you both so much!! It is a character very useful in >the few instances in our elections manuals that have [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Diana. This worked great. And by selecting the exisiting return mark, the extra spacing Word wants to add in besides the new line doesn't happen. >>-----Original Message----- >>That symbol is the "end of line" mark, which moves to the [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> >>. It's a line break or "new line" character. As Richard has told you, you enter it using Shift+Enter, and it does serve a useful purpose: to begin a new line without beginning a new paragraph. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > My supervisor and I are formatting handbooks done up in > Word 2000. There is a piece of formatting we need that we [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Thank you! >It's a line break or "new line" character. As Richard has told you, you >enter it using Shift+Enter, and it does serve a useful purpose: to begin a >new line without beginning a new paragraph. See >http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm Thank you. |
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