<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Click here to view or hide the nonprinting characters in your text, such as line breaks, tab stops and spaces.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">Nonprinting characters indicate the end of paragraphs, tabs and spaces. The ends of paragraphs have a visible paragraph mark, tabs are shown by a small right arrow and a space is depicted by a point.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If a menu item is checked, the nonprinting characters in the document are visible in the Wrap Region. This is helpful if you want to copy sections that end or begin with such characters, and insert them in another position.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The paragraph marks are particularly important if they contain the formatting information about the next paragraph. If you delete a paragraph mark, the next paragraph takes on the formatting of the previous paragraph. If you delete a paragraph mark directly before a table, you will also delete the table.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To establish which of the nonprinting characters that are listed here should be displayed, choose <help:link Id="66234" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><span class="T1">Tools - Options - Text Document - Formatting Aids</span></help:link>.</p>