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Could anyone please tell me the name of the 'end of line symbol' in microsoft word
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As Word wraps line automatically to fit the display and/or printer, there is no end of line symbol.
I assume you mean the end of paragraph symbol (also known as a hard return).
It looks like a backward P with a double upright and the hollow filled in. It is known as a pilcrow or, more commonly, simply as a paragraph mark.
(This differs from HTML, where there are both newline and paragraph marks - the newline is a cranked arrow, down and left, which you may also have on the CR or Enter key of your computer)
I assume you mean the end of paragraph symbol (also known as a hard return).
It looks like a backward P with a double upright and the hollow filled in. It is known as a pilcrow or, more commonly, simply as a paragraph mark.
(This differs from HTML, where there are both newline and paragraph marks - the newline is a cranked arrow, down and left, which you may also have on the CR or Enter key of your computer)
From Wikipedia:
The name may be a derivation of paragraph through parcrafte, but this etymology is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word originated as pylcraft, a corrupted form of "paragraph" (earliest reference c.1440).
Yet another piece of mostly useless knowledge that will come in handy in some pub quiz or another. Unfortunately, it's probably pushed out some old piece of useful knowledge to make room for it :)
The name may be a derivation of paragraph through parcrafte, but this etymology is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word originated as pylcraft, a corrupted form of "paragraph" (earliest reference c.1440).
Yet another piece of mostly useless knowledge that will come in handy in some pub quiz or another. Unfortunately, it's probably pushed out some old piece of useful knowledge to make room for it :)
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