I’m trying to find out what the following symbol is, how it gets into a document, and (most importantly) how to get rid of it: ▪¶ (yes, it's a black square next to a paragraph mark).

After clicking the “Show/Hide” button on the ribbon, a Word 2010 user here at my plant found the symbol imbedded in her document causing an unwanted page break: ▪¶. Neither of us has any idea how the symbol got there; nothing either of us could figure out made the page break go away. We finally gave up and she submitted the document to her boss with the funky page break.

Hi Moleque,

What you're seeing is probably the tag MS uses to show that the paragraph has a special formatting attribute, such as 'Keep with Next' or 'Page Break Before'. See under Parapgraph > Line and Page breaks.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I'll check it out. Thanks!