So what do the paragraph marks mean, and why is the spacing different in these examples below? So you may have been wondering where these backward P symbols come from, these paragraph marks. They represent hard or a carriage return, which was a common term when typewriters were used, and I know they're still used today, but when they were used commonly. With a typewriter, you need to press return or enter in order to move on to the next line, whereas Word does this automatically. As soon as you reach the end of the row, it will take you down to the next line, and you continue, okay? So you should only really, therefore, insert a hard return in a Word document if you want to move on to a new paragraph, because you'll also get this kind of additional bit of space in between the lines as well. Now, if you only want to move on to a new line without adding the extra space, then you need to insert a soft return, and the shortcut for this is shift and enter, rather than just enter for a hard return, okay? So if you insert a soft return, you'll end up with a different symbol, but you also, you don't end up with a space in between the two lines, okay? Now, it's obviously, it's very difficult to spot where a soft return has been used unless the paragraph marks are visible. I mean, if I switch them off again, you can see it's very, very difficult to tell, so showing the paragraph marks allows you to see where these things have been inserted.