The secret world of nonprinting characters
Have you experienced the following using MS Word?
- your pages are not breaking as you like
- your printer is adding a blank page at the end of your document
- an automatic number insists on being bold even though you have applied bold formatting to only a part of the numbered paragraph
It’s time to unravel the mystery of nonprinting characters and abuse its use…
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm