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Non-printing character in word processors

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Non-printing characters or formatting marks are characters for content designing in word processors, which are not displayed at printing. It is also possible to customize their display on the monitor. The most common non-printable characters in word processors are pilcrow, space, non-breaking space, tab character etc.[1][2]

Characters

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To display characters on the monitor screen in Microsoft Word (Home tab) or OpenOffice.org and its derivatives (upper panel), press the icon .[3] The following symbols will be displayed:[citation needed]

  • Space (·) each pressing of the space key will be displayed like this.
  • Non-breaking space (°) is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position.
  • Pilcrow () is the symbolic representation of paragraphs.
  • Line break (↵) breaks the current line without new paragraph. It puts lines of text close together.
  • Tab character (→) is used to align text horizontally to the next tab stop.
  • End-of-cell and end-of row markers (¤) appear automatically in each box when display of non-printable characters turned on.
  • Soft hyphen or non-breaking hyphen (-) is a hidden separator for hyphenation in the places specified by the user, regardless of the automatic hyphenation.[4]
  • ············Page Break············, ::::::::::Section Break::::::::::, or ············Column Break············

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Key combinations

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Name Common view Common key
combinationsfor
Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org (from 3.0) 		Key combination
in other word processors 		Windows
Alt Key Codes[5] 		Unicode name Unicode code (HEX) Unicode code (DEC)
Space · Space SPACE 0x20 0032
Non-breaking
space 		° Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Space Ctrl+Space for FrameMaker,
LyX (non-Mac),
OpenOffice.org (before 3.0), WordPerfect 		Alt+0+1+6+0 or Alt+2+5+5 (not always works) NO-BREAK SPACE 00A0 0160
Pilcrow ↵ Enter Alt+0182
or Alt+20 (on number keyboard).
Line
break 		↵ ⇧ Shift+↵ Enter
Tab
character 		→ Tab ↹
Soft
hyphen 		¬ Ctrl+- 2011
Page
break 		···Page Break··· Ctrl+↵ Enter

See also

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References

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  1. ^ support.office.com: Show or hide formatting marks
  2. ^ Onlyoffice.com:Show/hide nonprinting characters
  3. ^ "Show or hide tab marks in Word - Microsoft Support". support.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  4. ^ support.office.com: Insert a hyphen
  5. ^ "Windows Alt Key Codes". Penn State University. 2010. Archived from the original on 2016-11-02. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
IBM PC keyboard (Windows, ANSI US layout)
Esc F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 PrtScn/
SysRq 		Scroll
Lock 		Pause/
Break
TildeExclamation markAt signNumber signDollar signPercent signCaretAmpersandAsteriskParenthesisParenthesisUnderscorePlus signBackspaceBacktick1 (number)2 (number)3 (number)4 (number)5 (number)6 (number)7 (number)8 (number)9 (number)0Hyphen-minusEquals signBackspaceTab keyQWERTYUIOPCurly bracketCurly bracketVertical barTab keyQWERTYUIOPSquare bracketSquare bracketBackslashCaps lockASDFGHJKLColon (punctuation)Quotation markEnter keyCaps lockASDFGHJKLSemicolonApostropheEnter keyShift keyZXCVBNMBracketBracketQuestion markShift keyShift keyZXCVBNMComma (punctuation)Full stopSlash (punctuation)Shift keyControl keyWindows keyAlt keySpace barAlt keyWindows keyMenu keyControl key
 Insert Home PgUp Num
Lock 		∕ ∗ −
Delete End PgDn 7 8 9 +
4 5 6
↑ 1 2 3 Enter
← ↓ →    0
   Ins 		 . 
Del


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