Special Characters

Special characters are defined as they exist in Microsoft Word for the Macintosh. Other characters may be added for interchanging files with other applications. If the Help compiler does not recognize a character, it is ignored.

For simplicity, ASCII 9 is treated the same as \tab and ASCII 10 is treated the same as \par. ASCII 13 is ignored. The control code \<10> is also ignored, even though it may be used to indicate a soft carriage return.

Statement

Meaning

\*	Custom RTF destination. Not supported.
\-	Optional hyphen. Not supported.
\:	Subentry in index entry. Not supported.
\_	Nonbreaking hyphen. Not supported.
\\|	Formula character. Not supported.
\~	Nonbreaking space. Not supported.
\’hh	Hexadecimal value of specified character.
\bullet	Bullet. Not supported.
\cell	End of table cell.
\chatn	Annotation reference. Not supported.
\chdate	Current date. Not supported.
\chftn	Auto-numbered footnote reference. Not supported.
\chftnsep	Anchoring character for footnote separator. Not supported.
\chftnsepc	Anchoring character for footnote continuation. Not supported.
\chpgn	Current page number. Not supported.
\chpict	Placeholder character for picture. Not supported.
\chtime	Current time. Not supported.
\column	Required column break. Not supported.
\emdash	Em-dash. Not supported.
\endash	En-dash. Not supported.
\ldbquote	Left double quotation mark. Not supported.
\line	Required line break; same as SHIFT+ENTER.
\lquote	Left single quotation mark. Not supported.
\page	End of current topic. OVERLOADED
\par	End of paragraph.
\rdbquote	Right double quotation mark. Not supported.
\row	End of table row.
\rquote	Right single quotation mark. Not supported.
\sect	End of section and paragraph.
\tab	Tab character.