Formatting Marks

S

Sophie

Hi I have just received an attachment and when I transfer it to Word by cut
and paste and reveal the formatting I get some strange formatting marks.
Where can I find a list of formatting marks and what they are? and how to
get them?

The 2 strange ones are a pointing back bent arrow and 2 small OO 's


Thanks Sophie
 
B

Beth Melton

Hi Sophie,

The bent arrow is a manual line break, inserted by pressing Shift +
Enter.

The two o's could be nonbreaking spaces. Try inserting a nonbreaking
space by using Ctrl + Shift + Space and comparing them.

You can obtain a list of nonprinting characters from:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintCharsContent.htm

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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