Does anyone know how to insert these non-breaking paragraph marks?

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Confuised Paragraph

I've recently come across a template with a wonderful property, but I have no
idea how to reproduce it. It's a non-breaking paragraph mark. It allows you
to create a table of contents using a heading style without making the entire
paragraph show up in the TOC. An illustration may be helpful. "[P]" stands
for the paragraph mark that you see when you turn show formatting.

---Example---
Living Room Specifications. [P] The living room must have dimentions of X by
Y by Z. Flooring is to be hard wood. The west wall is to have a built-in book
shelf. The remainder of this paragraph continues with specifications. [P]
---Example----

Now, when you put your cursor over the phrase "Living Room Specifications"
it shows up as the style "heading 1." And that line has all of the heading 1
formatting. But, there is no line break following the [P] marker. The text
that follows has the "normal" style applied to it. And when the creat TOC is
created, the TOC has "Living Room Specifications" before the leader.

I don't know if it's significant, but the first "[P]" is surrounded by a
dotted box. If anyone knows how this works, please let me know. This feature
is very useful.
 
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DeanH

The paragraph mark is "Hidden" (under Format Font) this is sometimes used to
create the style break to allow the TOC definition required.
Hope this helps
DeanH
 
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Stefan Blom

It is a hidden paragraph mark, as DeanH wrote, or a style separator. The
difference is that, unlike hidden paragraph marks, style separators allow
you to view the split paragraph as it would appear in a printed document,
even if nonprinting marks are displayed.

You can insert style separators via the Style Separator command, which you
can add to a toolbar (Word 2003) or to the Quick Access Toolbar (Word 2007).
 

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