Formatting Question

[emmes]

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?

 

[Elliott Roper]

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.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Elliott-

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

$B"#"y(B
$B"#"y(B
$B"#"y(B

Rather than here.$B"y"#(B

Regards |:>)

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi Elliott-

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

$B"#"y(B
$B"#"y(B
$B"#"y(B

Rather than here.$B"y"#(B

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. ;-)