It, like the other non-printing characters, doesn't "do" anything. It just
shows you something. The paragraph mark tells you that you (or the typist)
pressed the Enter key. The black dot tells you that paragraph formatting
involving placement of the paragraph has been applied. Examples of such
formatting are space before, space after, keep lines together, and keep with
next.
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"Ridge Kennedy" wrote in message
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In a doc, (Office 2003, Word, XP (toolsoptions"All" checked visible)
there is a square black dot to the left of the text boundary -- one for
each paragraph with heading styles 1-4. No dot for headings 5- and lower.
I know I've seen something about the dot somewhere, but can't find it.
What's the dot about and what, if anything, does it do?

Ridge