What does this symbol mean in word

The anchor symbol will be next to whatever the graphic is anchored to

When you’ve got your graphic in position, you might want to modify its
position after you’ve seen it in place with the text. Now it would be
useful to see what the graphic is positioned relative to.

Behind the scenes, when you position a floating graphic, Word is
«anchoring» the graphic relative to whatever you’ve positioned the
graphic by (paragraph, page, and so on). For example, if you’ve
positioned the graphic relative to a paragraph, the anchor appears at
the start of the paragraph. Even if you’ve positioned the graphic by
dragging it where you wanted, it still has an anchor.

You can move an anchor by dragging it to a different position in the
document. This will only move the anchor — not the graphic. So in the
newsletter example, if you split the paragraph that the picture is
anchored to into two paragraphs, the anchor is then attached to the
second paragraph. You want the graphic to be positioned relative to
the first paragraph, so you could drag the anchor without moving the
picture. Now you can add many new paragraphs, but the graphic remains
in position anchored to the first paragraph.

Tip The graphic and the anchor must be on the same page. If you add
or remove text and the anchor moves to another page, the graphic will
join it. So you always want to position the anchor on the page that
you want the graphic to appear on.

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If you want to remove it

If you really want to remove the anchor, you do it by selecting the object and deleting it from the document. If you just don’t want to see the anchor symbol (but you do want to keep the object), click File > Options > Display and uncheck the box for «object anchors».

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Your average keyboard has enough letters, numbers, and punctuation marks for all your day-to-day typing needs. But what if you need symbols or special characters that aren’t on your keyboard?

Well, in Microsoft Word, you have three main options:

1. Use the Symbol menu.
2. Learn some ASCII codes.
3. Use Microsoft Word’s special character shortcuts.

In the rest of this post, we’ll look at how to do each of these in your writing. Watch the video or read the post below to get started:

1. Using the Symbol Menu

To see the Symbol menu in Microsoft Word, go to Insert > Symbols on the ribbon and click the Symbol button (or Insert > Advanced Symbol > Symbols in the menu system in Word for Mac).

This will open a quick access menu of 20 frequently used symbols to pick from. However, you can also access the full range of special characters in Microsoft Word as follows:

• Go to Insert > Symbols and click Symbol to open the menu.
• Click More Symbols… to open a new window.
• Scroll through until you find the symbol you want to use.
• Click Insert to add the symbol to your document.

The symbol will then appear in your document at your cursor. Microsoft Word will also add it to the quick access menu, saving your time if you need to use the same symbol again.

2. ASCII Codes

ASCII codes each indicate a different symbol, so you can use them to add special characters to a document quickly via the numeric keypad:

• Learn or look up the correct ASCII code for the symbol(s) you need.
• Turn on Num Lock on your keyboard to activate the numeric keypad.
• Hold down the Alt key and type the required code.

The corresponding symbol will then appear at your cursor position.

3. Shortcuts for Special Characters

For some special characters, your simplest option is to let Microsoft Word do the hard work! There are, for example, shortcuts available for the following common symbols:

You’ll notice we’ve included an “autocorrect” version for each symbol above. In these cases, Microsoft Word will automatically correct the specified text to create the symbol.

For example, to add a trademark symbol to a document, we have two options:

1. Hold down Ctrl + Alt + T at the same time.
2. Write “(TM)” and let Microsoft Word change this to the symbol.

These shortcuts are very quick and simple, so it is worth memorizing them if you use any of these symbols frequently. Similar shortcuts are also available for accented letters.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially accents), see below

In this table,

• The first cell in each row gives a symbol;
• The second, a link to the article that details it, using its Unicode standard name or common alias (holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol’s function);
• The third, symbols listed elsewhere in the table that is similar to it in meaning or appearance or that may be confused with it;
• The fourth (if present) links to related article(s) or adds a clarification note.

Symbol	Name of the symbol[a]	Similar glyphs or concepts	See also
◌́	Acute (accent)	Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex
❦ ❧	Aldus leaf	Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index	Fleuron
≈	Almost equal to	Tilde, Double hyphen	Approximation, Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde
&	Ampersand	plus sign	Ligature (writing)
⟨ ⟩	Angle brackets	Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than sign, Guillemet	Bracket
‘ ’	Apostrophe	Quotation mark, Guillemet, Prime, Grave
*	Asterisk	Asterism, Dagger	Footnote
⁂	Asterism	Dinkus, Therefore sign
@	At sign
	Backslash	Slash, Solidus (/)
`	Backtick (non-Unicode name)		(‘Backtick’ is an alias for the grave accent symbol)
‱	Basis point (per ten thousand)	Per cent, per mille (per 1,000)
∵	Because sign	Therefore sign
[ ] { }	Brackets	Angle bracket, Parenthesis
•	Bullet	Interpunct
‸ ⁁ ⎀	Caret (proofreading)		Caret (computing) (^)
⟨ ⟩	Chevron (non-Unicode name)		(‘Chevron’ is an alias for Angle bracket)
^	Circumflex (symbol)	Caret (The freestanding circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics)	Circumflex (diacritic), Caret (computing), Hat operator
◌̂	Circumflex (diacritic)	Grave, Tilde	Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic
:	Colon	Semicolon
,	Comma		Cedilla, Decimal separator
⁒	Commercial minus sign	Minus sign, Division sign, Per cent, Obelus
🄯, (ɔ)	Copyleft sign	Copyright sign
©	Copyright sign	Sound recording copyright	Circled latin capital letter C
¤	Currency sign	Square lozenge («Pillow»)	various Currency symbols
† ‡	Dagger	Obelus	Footnotes, Latin cross,
–  — (and more)	Dash	Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, minus sign	Em dash, En dash
°	Degree sign	Masculine ordinal indicator
* * *	Dinkus	Asterism, Fleuron, Dingbat
(many)	Dingbat	Dinkus, Fleuron
⌀	Diameter		Ø (Scandinavian orthography), Slashed zero; empty set
«	Ditto mark	Quotation mark
÷	Division sign	Slash (Solidus) (/), Obelus
◌	Dotted circle (Used as a generic placeholder when describing diacritics)		Combining Diacritical Marks
⹀ ⸗	Double hyphen	Almost equal to
…	Ellipsis
=	Equals sign
℮	Estimated sign
!	Exclamation mark	Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang
ª	Feminine ordinal indicator	Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign
(many)	Fleuron	Dinkus, Dingbat
❦ ❧	Floral heart	Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index	Fleuron
.	Full stop	Interpunct, Period	Decimal separator
♀ ♂ ⚥	Gender symbol		LGBT symbols
`	Grave (symbol)		Quotation mark#Typewriters and early computers
◌̀	Grave (diacrictic)	Acute, Circumflex, Tilde	Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic
>	Greater-than sign	Angle bracket
« »	Guillemet	Angle brackets, quotation marks	Much greater than
❦ ❧	Hedera	Dingbat, Dinkus, Index, Pilcrow	Fleuron
‐	Hyphen	Dash, Hyphen-minus
—	Hyphen-minus	Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign
☞	Index	Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage)
·	Interpunct	Full-stop, Period,	Decimal separator
‽	Interrobang (combined ‘Question mark’ and ‘Exclamation mark’)	Inverted question and exclamation marks
¡	Inverted exclamation mark	Exclamation mark, Interrobang
¿	Inverted question mark	Question mark, Interrobang
<	Less-than sign	Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet
◊	Lozenge	Square lozenge («Pillow»)
☞	Manicule	Index, Obelus
º	Masculine ordinal indicator	Feminine ordinal indicator, Degree sign
−	Minus sign	Hyphen-minus, Commercial minus
×	Multiplication sign		X mark
#	Number sign	Numero sign. Also known as «octothorpe» and «hash»	Pound sign
№	Numero sign	Number sign
	Obelus	Division sign, Dagger, Commercial minus, Index
( )	Parenthesis	Bracket, Angle bracket
%	Percent sign	Per mille (per 1,000), Basis point (per 10,000)
‰	Per mille	Percent, Basis point
.	Period
¶	Pilcrow	Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P	Section sign (‘Silcrow’)
⌑	Pillow (non-Unicode name)		‘Pillow’ is an informal nick-name for the ‘Square lozenge’ in the travel industry. The generic Currency sign is superficially similar
|	Pipe (non-Unicode name)		(formally, «vertical bar»)
+	Plus sign	minus sign, ampersand
±	Plus–minus sign (‘plus or minus’)	Approximately equal to
′ ″ ‴	Prime (symbol)	Apostrophe, quotation marks	foot (unit), Inch, Minute, Second
?	Question mark	Inverted question mark, Interrobang
“ ”   » » ‘ ’   ‘ ‘	Quotation marks	Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime	Inch, Second
®	Registered trademark symbol	Trademark symbol
¤	Scarab (non-Unicode name)	(‘Scarab’ is an informal name for the generic Currency sign)
§	Section sign	section symbol, section mark, double-s, ‘silcrow’	Pilcrow
;	Semicolon	Colon
℠	Service mark symbol	Trademark symbol
/ (and more)	Slash (non-Unicode name)	Division sign, Backslash	also known as «stroke»
/	Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols)	Division sign	Called «slant» in ASCII
℗	Sound recording copyright symbol	Copyright sign
⌑	Square lozenge	Currency sign
∴	Therefore sign	Asterism, Because
⁀	Tie
~	Tilde (symbol)		Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde
◌̃	Tilde (diacritic)	Circumflex, Grave	Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic
™	Trademark symbol	Registered trade mark
_	Underscore
|	Vertical bar	also known as a ‘pipe’
/	Virgule	Slash	Virgule (disambiguation)

See also[edit]

• Astronomical symbols – Symbols in astronomy
• Chemical symbol – Abbreviations used in chemistry
• Chinese punctuation – Punctuation conventions used in Chinese languages
• Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent a monetary currency’s name
• Diacritic – Modifier mark added to a letter
• Hebrew punctuation – Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time
• Glossary of mathematical symbols – Meanings of symbols used in mathematics
• Japanese punctuation
• Korean punctuation – Non-alphanumeric marks used in writing
• Ordinal indicator – Character(s) following an ordinal number (used of the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th).

Lists of other typographic entities[edit]

• List of currency symbols currently in use
• List of logic symbols
• List of Japanese typographic symbols
• List of mathematical symbols by subject
• List of common physics notations
• List of typographic features

Notes[edit]

External links[edit]

• The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

The anchor is a symbol that sometimes appears when you insert an image, or a SmartArt, or a drawing into a Word document.

By default, the anchor will only appear when you insert a picture, clipart, or SmartArt and then ‘Wrap text.’

In Word say 2013, you have the option of wrapping text in a specific way. When you wrap the text, an anchor will appear next to the image. Now, if you put the clicker on that anchor, a description will appear, letting you know that this picture is anchored to the text at this specific location or paragraph in the document. Now, if you were to try to move this paragraph, this picture would move with it.

Suppose you want to keep the picture fixed to one location or position. You can click it, and wrapping options will appear. Here, you can pick ‘Fix position on page.’ If you were to try moving the paragraph (put the cursor at the beginning of the section and press enter), the picture would no longer move with the paragraph.

If you were to move the paragraph to another page, the picture would move too, but to the exact location on a new page.

You also have the option of locking the anchor

Locking the anchor means that even if you keep changing the position of the image, it stays anchored to a specific paragraph. You will also notice that the anchor symbol will remain to the left of the start of the paragraph, regardless of the picture’s position.

When you unlock the anchor, the picture is no longer anchored to a specific location or paragraph and will remain next to the image.

Removing the anchor

1.    Open Word

In the top left corner, go to ‘File.’

2.    Go to ‘Options’

When you go to ‘File,’ a list will appear. Go to options at the bottom.

3.    Go to ‘Display’

A pop-up window will appear. Go to ‘Display.’

Under ‘Always show these formatting marks on the screen,’ uncheck or make sure the option ‘Object Anchors’ is unchecked.

Now, when you insert an image or object, the anchor will not appear.

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