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When I open a Word document with Word 2010 on my desktop, the paragraph mark is shown as
However, on my laptop with the same Word version when I open the same document it’s shown as
Why? How can I change the paragraph marks?
PS: I do not mean how to hide or display the paragraph marks but how to change this symbol.
Though this is an ancient question and we are now using Office 365 instead of Word 2010, I had and (just) resolved this problem, so I'll put down my solution:
The appearance of the paragraph marks seems dependent on your language preferences (Option/Language). The pilcrow seems to be used in English, while the carriage return lookalike is used in East Asian languages (for me it was Japanese), so if you want the pilcrow, change the Editing, Display and Help languages all to English and the pilcrows should start showing up.
Source Nonprinting Formatting Marks In Word
What Do The Formatting Marks Mean In Word 2010?
will be displayed if you press Enter to insert a paragraph break (start a new paragraph).
will be displayed if you press Shift+Enter to insert a Line Break (start a new line).
Source Line, page and section breaks
Insert a Line Break
There are two types of line breaks: a paragraph (hard) break and a manual (soft) break.
You insert a paragraph break by pressing Enter. The new paragraph applies all the related styles, for example, the spacing between paragraphs or creates a new bullet or numbered item in a list
Suppose you want to omit the extra space between paragraphs because you are entering an address, writing a poem or suppose you require a line break in a list without adding a new item. To do this you insert a manual break.
You do this by placing the cursor where you want to insert the line break and then press Shift+Enter
How can I change the paragraph marks?
You cannot change which symbol is displayed. However you can delete the paragraph mark or line break and use the other one if it meets your formatting need better.
The backward P is a paragraph mark.
A paragraph mark looks similar to a backward letter "P" (¶).
A paragraph mark appears at the end of a paragraph and contains paragraph formatting information.
To resolve this issue, turn off the option to show formatting marks.
On the Standard toolbar, click the Show/Hide button.
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the View tab.
Under Formatting marks click to clear the check boxes for the marks that you do not want to appear in the document.
Press ctrl+shift+spacebar.
EDIT:
Here: File tab | Options | Display.
See this official Microsoft support document for more information.
Here's a more detailed explanation.
Also here's a youtube video about it.
The Solution guys : Go Find/Replace Now in the Type this in the FIND WHAT DIALOG BOX: E.g ^13 for Paragraph markers, Then replace with the same character and go to Format and Apply the FONT, Or COlor, Similarly use ^32 Spaces , ^0160 Non breaking Spaces , ^09 TAB OK Guys Get it. This is the Solution for now , if there is a better way let me know Neville ( MCSE , CCNA , CCNP )
PEACE OUT!!
