paragraph mark appears inside paragraph

[cris_shopface]

hello, i received this document for editing and it has a paragraph mark
inside a paragraph. when i'm in normal or outline view, i only see one
paragraph, the same if i click 3 times in the margin, but still, this
paragraph mark is in the middle of the text. can anyone explain how this is
possible?
thanks

 

[CyberTaz]

What color is it? Is it selectable? Does it disappear like the others when
you hide the non-printing characters? What about Print Layout View?

The pilcrow (¶) is nothing more than another symbol character which can be
inserted just like any other. Perhaps that's the case here.

If not, my next thought would be some level of document corruption. What
happens if you select that paragraph excluding the (¶) at the end, then
copy/paste into a new document?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

If neither of Bob's ideas are true, the next most likely suggestion is that
you are looking at a "Style Separator".

A Style Separator is a mind-bendingly stupid idea introduced with Word 2002
and immediately deprecated because it was such a silly idea. It enabled you
to apply two paragraph styles to the same paragraph, in order to produce
run-in headings.

It IS a fake paragraph mark.

It was replaced with an even more stupid idea: "Linked Styles", which create
the character parts of a paragraph style as a separate style with the same
name.

So these are "fake styles".

If you manage to avoid either mechanism, your document will be a lot more
reliable.

Cheers

hello, i received this document for editing and it has a paragraph mark
inside a paragraph. when i'm in normal or outline view, i only see one
paragraph, the same if i click 3 times in the margin, but still, this
paragraph mark is in the middle of the text. can anyone explain how this is
possible?
thanks

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