In WORD 2013 I have occasionally, small black squares which appear at the beginning of some paragraph headers and occasionally at the beginning of some regular text lines. They are visible only when displaying all format symbols (Shift-Ctl-8).
NOTE: A CLOSED-CAPTIONED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO EXISTS IN MY 'EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS' AREA HERE ON YOU TUBE.The Paragraph Symbol in Microsoft Word. It looks like a backwards P. A little formal 'Microsoft Word - To input the ¶ Paragraph Symbol, hold Alt, and on the NUMERIC keyboard type its code – 0182.
Also found in: Encyclopedia. par′agraph mark`
n.
a character, usu. ¶, used to indicate the beginning of a new paragraph, as in copy for typesetting. Also called par′agraph sign`.
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