Non-printing character in word processors
Non-printing character or Formatting marks are characters for content designing in word processors, which aren't 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
To display characters on the monitor screen in Microsoft Word (Home tab) or OpenOffice (upper panel), press the icon ¶. The following symbols will be displayed.
- Space — each pressing of the key will be displayed as ·
- Non-breaking space (°) is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position.
- Pilcrow (¶).
- 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 nonbreaking hyphen (¬) is a hidden separator for hyphenation in the places specified by the user, regardless of the automatic hyphenation.[3]
- Page (············Page Break············), section (::::::::::Section Break::::::::::) or column (············Column Break············) breaks.
Key combinations
| Name | Common view | Common key combinationsfor Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, OpenOffice (from 3.0) |
Key combination in other word processors |
Windows Alt Key Codes[4] |
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 (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). |
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| Line break |
↵ | ⇧ Shift+↵ Enter | |||||
| Tab character |
→ | Tab ↹ | |||||
| Soft hyphen |
¬ | Ctrl+- | 2011 | ||||
| Page break |
···Page Break··· | Ctrl+↵ Enter |
See also
References
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| Esc | F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | F6 | F7 | F8 | F9 | F10 | F11 | F12 | PrtScn/ SysRq |
Scroll Lock |
Pause/ Break |
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Insert | Home | PgUp | Num Lock |
∕ | ∗ | − | |||||||||||||||||
| Delete | End | PgDn | 7 | 8 | 9 | + | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ↑ | 1 | 2 | 3 | Enter | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ← | ↓ | → | 0 Ins |
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