You can show or hide, if you see a lot of strange symbols in the document, some or all of thesesymbols by clicking the button Show/Hide ¶ (or pressing Ctrl+* orCtrl+Shift+8):

1. Microsoft Word Has Arrows And Paragraph Symbols Mac Word
2. Microsoft Word Arrow Symbol Shortcut
3. Microsoft Word Paragraph Symbol Shortcut

Notes:

10 annoying Word features (and how to turn them off). Word inserts symbols unexpectedly, such as trademark or copyright characters or even inserts an entire passage of text. 10 Microsoft. Jan 11, 2014 I Bought a $3 2TB USB Drive and Got More Than Just Malware - Duration: 11:18. Jays Tech Vault Recommended for you. Jun 24, 2016  Short Answer: Command-8 (⌘-8) There’s a keyboard shortcut for toggling invisible characters (like paragraph marks, and spaces, and tabs) in Microsoft Word on a Mac and as far as I know it’s worked in every version, since the beginning. Command-8 does it. Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them.

• Each of nonprintable characters that you will see after highlighting this button, can beselected and removed from the document. Also, you can select, delete or replace alloccurrences of a particular kind of special symbols, seeReplacing special characters.
• There are some other useful elements that you can use in a document such as bookmarks, fields,etc. You can show and hide them too, independently from the nonprinting symbols. SeeHow to show/hide bookmarks in a Word document,How to turn on or turn off highlighting off fields in a Word document.

You can selectively show only spaces in the document, only Tabulation symbols,etc. To show or hide specific nonprintable symbols, do the following:

1. On the File tab, click the Optionsbutton:

Microsoft Word Has Arrows And Paragraph Symbols Mac Word

2. In the Word Options dialog box, open theDisplay tab and then check or uncheck options as you like:

• Tab characters or Tabulations: If you check this checkbox, all tabulationswill be shown as an arrow symbol (→):

  SeeA perfect text alignment using tabs andSetting tabs using the Tabs dialog box.

• Spaces can differ:
  • When you type the text, usually you separate words (sentences or even syllables insome languages) by pressing the Space key (also known as Spacebar).

    Usual or common space is shown as a little dot between words:

  • To keep words together, can a Nonbreaking space (also callednon-breaking space, no-break space,non-breakable space (NBSP), hard space, orfixed space) be used. A Nonbreaking space in the Word documentlooks like a degree symbols between words:

    SeeHow to keep two or several words together in a document Word.

  • Sometimes more specific spacing characters like Em Space, En Space or¼ Em Space are used.

    These spaces distinguish by their width:

    • Em space means a space the same width as a lowercase mcharacter.
    • En space means a space the same width as a lowercase n character.
    • ¼ Em space (also known as mid space) accordingly means aspace the same width as a lowercase m character divided by 4 -one fourth of an Em Space wide.

    Em space and En space are shown as common space, as a little dotbetween words, but with wider gaps before and after them. ¼ Em Space lookslike a vertical bar between words:

• Paragraph marks or pilcrows (¶) represent a paragraph break.

  They are inserted by Word at the end of every paragraph. In other words, it appears everytime when you press Enter:

  Notes:

  1. As you can see in the example above, many of emails are formatted incorrectly. SeeHow to remove paragraph symbols for every line in Word.
  2. The paragraph mark ¶ contains all the paragraph formatting. To copy all paragraphformatting, you can select this symbol, copy it, and then paste it into anotherparagraph. The last ¶ in the document contains formatting for the last section of thedocument, or for entire document if it contains just one section.

     SeeHow to copy paragraph or numbering format without changing the text format andHow to do anything with paragraph format with keyboard.

• Hidden text can be used in any Word document because it is a pre-defined format likeItalic or Bold. It isn't necessary to do something extra to add hidden text.

  Hidden text is shown with a dotted underline:

  SeeCheck the document for hidden information and11 Shortcut Keys to control font format.

  Notes: In contrast of other nonprinting characters, hidden text can beprinted. SeeHow to see/show a hidden text in a Word document andHow to print a hidden text in a Word document.

• Optional hyphens are used to break specific lines of text.

  They are shown as ¬.

  For example, if a lengthy word wraps to the next line and leaves a large amount of whitespace, you can insert an optional hyphen in that specific word so that the first partappears on the first line. If the word later moves to a different position because ofediting, the optional hyphen does not print. If further editing moves the word back intoa hyphenation zone, the hyphen reappears:

  SeeUsing nonbreaking and optional hyphens.

• Object anchors are shown in a document just when you select an object.

  Any floating object in a document has an anchor that is tied to a particular paragraph. It can be moved, replaced orremoved with that paragraph like its part.

  It is possible to move any anchor to any other paragraph.

• The Show all formatting marks checkbox mirrors the button Show/Hide ¶ that wasdescribed above. When you click to highlight that button on the ribbon or non-highlight it(or use shortcut keys for that), that checkbox will be checked or unchecked appropriately.

Other formatting marks that you can see in the document by clicking on the Show/Hide ¶button:

• Line breaks:

  a) As a right-angle arrow pointing to the left. This symbol can be addedto the document to start a new line, not a new paragraph, by clicking onShift+Enter:

  b) As a right-angle arrow between two vertical lines. This symbol shows thebreak that separate text around object, such as a caption text or an image from the bodytext.

• Pagination breaks - a Column break, a Page break and a Section breakare used for the better formatting of the document:

  To add the page break, just click Ctrl+Enter.

• Keep marks are shown as a small black bullet ■ on the margin next to the paragraph:

  Keep marks represents some of paragraph options:

  • Keep with next,
  • Keep lines together,
  • Page break before.

  SeeHow to keep lines and paragraphs together in a Word documentfor more details.

  You can open the Paragraph dialog box and see keep marks by double-clicking on theappropriate keep mark.

• End-of-cell and End-of-row marks that you can see in tables as universalmonetary symbol or currency sign (¤) looks like a circle with four linesradiating from the corner:

  End-of-cell marks like a paragraph marks contain formatting for the last (or only)paragraph in the cell and formatting for the cell.

  End-of-row marks placed at the end of each row of a table. They contain formattingfor the row.

Notes:

• You can show or hide all these special symbols, but they are still non-printable! You canprint just some of them.
• To delete any of these special characters, select them and press the Delete key.
• Displaying of these special characters is very helpful for troubleshooting. If your textdoesn't break as you like, it can be because you have too many (or the wrong) paragraphs setas Keep with next.

  Microsoft update for mac 3.8 3 2. If your printer is adding a blank page at the end of your document, it could be because ofseveral empty paragraphs at the end that are forcing an extra page.

  If an automatic number insists on being bold even though you have applied bold formattingonly to the part of the numbered paragraph, it can be because of paragraph marks. You needto select the paragraph mark and un-bold it, since automatic bullets and numbering takeon the formatting of the paragraph mark.

See also this tip in French:Comment afficher / masquer les symboles non imprimables dans le document Word.

Paragraph symbol § ¶ Pilcrow

Click a pilcrow or paragraph symbol below to copy and paste. For keyboard shortcut for text pilcrow symbol and paragraph symbol read info below.

Paragraph symbol meaning

These text symbols aren't very popular today. For the biggest part, I find paragraph signs when I get some formatting problems in MS Word. I sometimes see paragraph sign, in books and law stuff. And that's all. You can hardly see it on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. People seem to be forgetting and displacing it with other notations. Ahh. I think, the life gets better. ^.^

Paragraph sign (from the Greek paragraphos, 'to write beside' or 'written beside') is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea.

The pilcrow symbol ¶, also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, or alinea (Latin: a linea, 'off the line'), is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs. The pilcrow can be used as an indent for separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1930s book, An Essay on Typography. The pilcrow was used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of physically discrete paragraphs was a common practice.

In German, Ukrainian and Russian as well as some other languages section sign § is called paragraph. While English 'paragraph' is called abzats/absatz. This can lead to misunderstandings.

Paragraph and pilcrow keyboard shortcuts

Choose your system and find out.

From Keyboard

Alt Codes

Shortcut technique that works on Desktops and most Laptops running MS Windows. You press Alt and, while holding it, type a code on Num Pad while it's turned on. Please, read a guide if you're running a laptop. You can type many frequently used symbols with this method.

Shift States

Configure your keyboard layout in Windows so that you can type all additional symbols you want as easy as any other text. Takes about 5-10 minutes to set things up, but you'll be typing like a boss. You can assign paragraph symbols ¶ and any other text characters to your keyboard using this technique.

Microsoft Word Arrow Symbol Shortcut

Character Map

CharMap allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are 'Arial', 'Times New Roman', 'Webdings') installed on your computer. You can input paragraph symbols using it.

Microsoft Word Paragraph Symbol Shortcut

Keyboard viewer

You can make frequently used technical non-fancy symbols like '√ ∑ π ∞ ∆ ™ © æ £ ¢' and åccénted letters on Mac using [Option] key. I've compiled a list of shortcuts in my article and explained how to open keyboard viewer. You can also use your Keyboard Viewer as an alternative to my list.

[Option] + [6] produces ¶ paragraph sign and [Option] + [7] produces § pilcrow sign.

Character Palette

Character Palette allows you to view and use all characters and symbols, including paragraph, available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are 'Arial', 'Times New Roman', 'Webdings') installed on your computer.

From Keyboard

There actually are 3 different ways to type symbols on Linux with a keyboard. And all of them can produce paragraph text symbols.

Character map

Character map allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are 'Arial', 'Times New Roman', 'Webdings') installed on your computer. It can also help you lookup Unicode codes for entering symbols with keyboard.

Following is a list of HTML and JavaScript entities for paragraph symbols. In Javascript you should write like a = 'this u2669 symbol' if you want to include a special symbol in a string.