Non-printing character in word processors

Non-printing character or Formatting marks are characters for content designing in word processors, which aren't displayed at printing. It is also possible to customize their display on the monitor. The most common non-printable characters in word processors are pilcrow, space, non-breaking space, Tab character etc.[1][2]

Characters

To display characters on the monitor screen in Microsoft Word (Home tab) or OpenOffice (upper panel), press the icon . The following symbols will be displayed.

Key combinations

Name Common view Common key
combinationsfor
Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, OpenOffice (from 3.0)
Key combination
in other word processors
Windows
Alt Key Codes[4]
Unicode name Unicode code (HEX) Unicode code (DEC)
Space · Space SPACE 0x20 0032
Non-breaking
space
° Ctrl+Shift+Space Ctrl+Space for FrameMaker,
LyX (non-Mac),
OpenOffice (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).
Line
break
Shift+Enter
Tab
character
Tab
Soft
hyphen
¬ Ctrl+- 2011
Page
break
···Page Break··· Ctrl+Enter

See also

References


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