| Special Characters That Affect Lines, Paragraphs, PagesLast reviewed: July 30, 1997Article ID: Q47538 | 
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 The following is a list of keys and key combinations and their effects: 
    Key                   Action
   ---                   ------
   ENTER                 Starts a new paragraph on a new line
   SHIFT+ENTER           Starts a new line without starting a new
                         paragraph
   TAB                   Moves text following to next tab stop
   CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR   Inserts a nonbreaking space, which prevents a
                         new line from starting between two words
   CTRL+- (hyphen)       Divides a word and displays and prints a
                         hyphen at the end of a line if the word falls
                         at the beginning of a line and the portion of
                         the word before the hyphen and the hyphen fit
                         at the end of the previous line
   CTRL+SHIFT+- (hyphen) Inserts a nonbreaking hyphen, which prevents
                         a hyphenated word from breaking between two
                         lines after the hyphen
   CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER      Inserts a hard column break without starting
                         a new section
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