What is the explanation (meaning) for the Carriage Return symbol shape in Microsoft Office Word?
2 Answers
The symbols have different meanings:
- ↲ - is used to indicate a line break where the paragraph does not end. This can be useful for formatting and presentation, especially as the formatting between paragraphs can be different. (not quite the same symbol as Word uses, apologies)
- ¶ - called a Pilcrow, and originates from the middle ages. It indicates the end of a paragraph. As you can see from my screenshot below, Word (and many other things including web pages) have the concept of "paragraphs", allowing for formatting to be different between paragraphs (i.e: the additional space below), and for the first line of a paragraph to be indented, etc...
In HTML the above could be given as follows:
<p> Paragraph 1, Sentence 1.<br> Paragraph 1, Sentence 2.
</p>
<p> Paragraph 2, Sentence 1. Paragraph 2, Sentence 2.
</p>
</p>
<p> &tab;Indented by a tab.
</p>Carriage return is used as EOL (end of line) symbol, see . Its english name is 'pilcrow' in typography it is alinea. Its origin and meaning are listed in
