<p>Nonprinting characters help you edit a document. They indicate the presence of various types of formatting, but they do not print with the document, even when they are displayed on the screen.</p>
<p>To show or hide nonprinting characters, click the <b>Nonprinting characters</b><imgalt="Nonprinting characters"src="../images/nonprintingcharacters.png"/> icon at the <b>Home</b> tab of the top toolbar. Alternatively, you can use the <em>Ctrl+Shift+Num8</em> key combination.</p>
<td>Inserted when you press the <b>Enter</b> key. It ends a paragraph and adds a bit of space after it. It contains information about the paragraph formatting.</td>
<td>Inserted when you use the <b>Shift+Enter</b> key combination. It breaks the current line and puts lines of text close together. Soft return is primarily used in titles and headings.</td>
<td>Inserted when you use the <b>Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar</b> key combination. It creates a space between characters which can't be used to start a new line.</td>
<td>Inserted when you use the <imgalt="Breaks icon"src="../images/pagebreak1.png"/><b>Breaks</b> icon at the <b>Insert</b> or <b>Layout</b> tab of the top toolbar and then select the <b>Insert Page Break</b> option, or select the <b>Page break before</b> option in the right-click menu or advanced settings window.</td>
<td>Inserted when you use the <imgalt="Breaks icon"src="../images/pagebreak1.png"/><b>Breaks</b> icon at the <b>Insert</b> or <b>Layout</b> tab of the top toolbar and then select one of the <b>Insert Section Break</b> submenu options (the section break indicator differs depending on which option is selected: Next Page, Continuous Page, Even Page or Odd Page).</td>
<td>Inserted when you use the <imgalt="Breaks icon"src="../images/pagebreak1.png"/><b>Breaks</b> icon at the <b>Insert</b> or <b>Layout</b> tab of the top toolbar and then select the <b>Insert Column Break</b> option.</td>
<td>They indicate the position of floating objects (those with a wrapping style other than <b>Inline</b>), e.g. images, autoshapes, charts. You should select an object to make its anchor visible.</td>