Non-printing characters or formatting marks are characters for content designing in word processors, which are not displayed at printing.
The most common non-printable characters in word processors are pilcrow, space, non-breaking space, tab character etc.
[1][2] To display characters on the monitor screen in Microsoft Word (Home tab) or OpenOffice.org and its derivatives (upper panel), press the icon ¶.
[3] The following symbols will be displayed:[citation needed] .
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