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emmes@aol.com - 14 Oct 2005 20:33 GMT

When I have the show/hide button activated in order to see paragraph
marks and other formatting characters, I sometimes encounter a small,
solid, black box next to some of the paragraph marks. Does anyone know
what these are? What is their purpose?

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Elliott Roper - 14 Oct 2005 22:36 GMT

> When I have the show/hide button activated in order to see paragraph
> marks and other formatting characters, I sometimes encounter a small,
> solid, black box next to some of the paragraph marks. Does anyone know
> what these are? What is their purpose?

If it were on the next line after the paragraph mark it would indicate
that the paragraph was set to "keep with next" which means you want to
discourage Word from splitting a page between the end of the marked
paragraph and the next one. Often part of heading styles for obvious
reasons. I don't think I have ever seen it after a paragraph marak on
the same line.

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CyberTaz - 14 Oct 2005 23:28 GMT

Hi Elliott-

I think you hit it on the head. Since the OP doesn't specify otherwise. I'm
guessing that the ¶s are 'empties' carrying the attrib, rather than at the
end of an actual text para. Such as

■¶
■¶
■¶

Rather than here.¶■

Regards |:>)

On 10/14/05 5:36 PM, in article 141020052236456998%nospam@yrl.co.uk,

>> When I have the show/hide button activated in order to see paragraph
>> marks and other formatting characters, I sometimes encounter a small,
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> reasons. I don't think I have ever seen it after a paragraph marak on
> the same line.

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Elliott Roper - 14 Oct 2005 23:59 GMT

> Hi Elliott-
>
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>
> Regards |:>)

I bet you might be right.
(I had to look at your post on Google Groups to make sense of the
charset="ISO-2022-JP" encoding you used. My poor old newsreader does
ISO 8859-1 or MacRoman.) This new-fangled 16 bit character nonsense
seems like it might be here to stay. ;-)

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Formatting Question