An unusual feature is that it places a large black square at the start of lines that have “Keep with next” enabled under “Text flow”. Once enabled, the non-printing characters appear as shown below. Go the the “Home” tab of the ribbon, find the “Paragraph” section and make sure the “¶” button is enabled. In most word processors, non-printing characters are indicated by a ¶ symbol, which is also known as a pilcrow. As the name implies, they only appear on your screen, not in print, or when you export to PDF. The blue symbols are non-printing characters, and they show why your layout is happening. Usually people who notice this go “Aargh! Hideous!”, but this time the response was “That looks useful”, and it is. Know your layoutĮarlier this year, someone walked past while I was word processing and noticed my screen was full of odd characters.
They allow your word processor to tell you how your document layout works.
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