Nonprinting characters or formatting marks are characters for content designing in word processors, which are not displayed at printing. It is also possible to customize their display on the monitor. The most common nonprintable characters in word processors are pilcrow, space, nonbreaking space, tab character etc.[1][2]
To display characters on the monitor screen in Microsoft Word (Home tab) or OpenOffice.org and its derivatives (upper panel), press the icon ¶.[3] The following symbols will be displayed:[citation needed]
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Name | Common view | Common key combinationsfor Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org (from 3.0) |
Key combination in other word processors |
Windows Alt Key Codes[5] |
Unicode name | Unicode code (HEX) | Unicode code (DEC) |
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Space | · | Space | SPACE | 0x20 | 0032 | ||
Nonbreaking space |
° | Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Space | Ctrl+Space for FrameMaker, LyX (non-Mac), OpenOffice.org (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 |
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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