Formatting mark

[Guest]

Normally when I show the formatting marks, at the end of each line is the
paragraph symbol but I have a document that shows a bent arrow instead.
Perhaps an "enter" instead of new paragraph? Where might I find a list of
the different formatting marks and what they mean? Also, how can I use find
and replace to replace the bent arrows with the paragraph symbol? I can
delete each one and when I hit the enter button, it replaces it with the
correct paragraph symbol but quite time consuming.

Thanks!!

 

[Greg Maxey]

Treesy,

They are line breaks. Shift+Enter. They start a new line in an existing
paragraph.

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

You can replace line break with

Find: ^l
Replace: ^p

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/FindingSpecialCharacters.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks, you rock!!

Treesy,

They are line breaks. Shift+Enter. They start a new line in an existing
paragraph.

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

You can replace line break with

Find: ^l
Replace: ^p

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/FindingSpecialCharacters.htm

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For some helpful tips using Word.

 

[Greg Maxey]

No, that was 20 years ago. Now I only roll ;-)

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Bent arrow = manual line break. Shift-Enter will insert one of these.
Replace ^l with ^p to change to a paragraph break or with a space to delete.
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[Guest]

The bent arrow is a Shift-Enter. Each time you press Enter you will get a
paragraph symbol. WHen you press Shift-Enter you will get the bent arrow.
IF you allow the text to wrap to the next line you see nothing. I tried to
do a find and replace and couldn't get that to work, but I think it would be
possible.