: What font and characters are used for the "line break" symbol used in Microsoft Word I am wondering which is the symbol used to denote line breaks in Microsoft Word. It can be visualized with

@Caterina889

The symbol that I believe you are looking for is the MANUAL LINE BREAK ( ^l ). Even though it looks like the ENTER sign ( ↲ ) but if you wish to search it or replace it you need to replace ^l

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@Margaret771

A very similar symbol appears in the 'character viewer' of my Mac. When I ask for 'copy character info', this is what I get:

DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH CORNER LEFTWARDS
Unicode: U+21B5, UTF-8: E2 86 B5

Among the fonts listed under 'font variation' (the fonts where it could find the character) are Arial Unicode, Cambria and Lucida Grande. Appearently, it's not too exotic a symbol.

It's also listed on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_%28symbol%29
And maybe you can even see it here:

↲

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@Merenda852

This is a guess, but I'd say it's not part of any font (or at least, any font you'd want to use).

Here is a super-zoomed-in view:



It's either some kind of bitmap font, or an image sprite. Modern fonts (post-Windows 95 anyways) don't typically look like that anymore.

Here's another thing to consider:



I jacked the font size up and played with changing the font. The pilcrows change size and face as you adjust the type but the tab and carriage returns do not.

So, again, I'd guess it's some kind of system-level sprite sort of thing. But I am not by any means a Windows expert.

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