Tab markers, inserted when you press the Tab key (depicted as arrows).The paragraph symbol or pilcrow (which contains formatting codes for the preceding paragraph).There are several different non-printing characters that you can display. Essentially, they serve as markers or signposts that you can use to figure out what’s going on in your document. The non-printing characters are what Microsoft calls “formatting marks.” They indicate the presence of various types of formatting, but they do not print with the document, even when they are displayed on the screen. Even in my early post about the paragraph symbol (pilcrow), I didn’t go into details about the non-printing characters: what they are, how to display (and hide) them, how to troubleshoot issues involving them. In earlier posts, I’ve mentioned Word’s “non-printing characters,” but only in passing. More about the non-printing characters in Word (all versions)
