Ah, yes, the "universal monetary symbol." If you look at it under
magnification, you'll see it's actually a circle with "ears." It's used for
both an end-of-cell marker and an end-of-row marker; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm
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"Bothell writer" wrote in message
...
Since the paragraphs were in tables, after changing to Times New Roman for
the paragraph marker, I'm seeing the square box used to denote end of
table
text rather than any paragraph marker. Previously, I saw the euro symbol;
now
I see the square box. So I think I'm fine.
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
Yes... that would be worrisome. If there are fonts in which the pilcrow
displays as a space, that would make such a problem hard to track down.
But,
such shouldn't be the case with Times New Roman.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
What I was saying was in response to your statement that "I applied
Times
New Roman and the paragraph marker went away entirely." If you had
nonprinting characters displayed and weren't seeing *any* paragraph
mark
(¶
or euro), then I would be concerned.
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"Bothell writer" wrote in
message
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Suzanne,
Please clarify why it's "worrying." I've set it to show formatting
marks
and
it's showing the Euro symbol instead of the paragraph marker in
tables
that
are formatting with Belizio-Regular 9.5 font.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
That's a bit worrying; if you have nonprinting characters
displayed,
you
should see the paragraph mark as ¶. If they're not displayed, of
course,
you
won't see them looking like a euro or anything else.
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"Bothell writer" wrote in
message
news
Thanks, Suzanne! It looked a bit strange and I didn't want to
turn
the
file
over to the client this way, so I applied Times New Roman and the
paragraph
marker went away entirely.
Appreciate your help!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Every font has its own rendition of the paragraph mark. Some
are
decidedly
odd-looking. Provided it represents an Enter, the way it is
rendered
won't
make any difference. If you apply Times New Roman to just the
paragraph
mark
and it looks normal, then don't worry about it.
The paragraph marks don't print, so they shouldn't affect a PDF
in
any
way.
If you want to use the paragraph mark character as a character
and
want
one
that looks more traditional, then format it with a different
font.
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"Bothell writer"
wrote in
message
...
I'm working with a WORD 2003 manual that was converted from
FrameMaker. In
the tables (and only in tables), the paragraph marker looks
like
a
Euro
symbol. I'm using Belizio font as my Normal font. I haven't
been
able
to
change this Euro paragraph marker to the usual paragraph
marker.
Will this Euro paragraph marker cause any problems down the
road?
The
file
will be PDF'ed.
If so, how do I change it?