Formatting behind an arrow symbol?

[Dylan56]

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!

 

[Richard O. Neville]

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.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

 

[Dylan56]

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.

 

[Dylan56]

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.

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.

 

[Dylan56]

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.