what is this formatting mark?

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When I turn view paragraph marks on in a particular document, in
addition to the normal paragraph marks, there are also other characters
that I don't recognize. Naturally, I can't paste them into this msg,
so I'll have to try to describe them. They're sort of like an 'o' with
points sticking out at four corners (2 o'clock, 5, 7 and 11). Putting
it differently, it's like there was an 'o' with an 'x' behind it, but
the 'o' covered up all but the ends of the lines forming the 'x'.
They're at the end of paragraphs (if there's a paragraph mark, this
other mark follows on the next line, but they seem to function as well
like a new paragraph.) I can see them in both print layout and in the
"normal" view.

What is it? I don't see it on any of the Microsoft web pages that
describe formatting codes. (And where is there a more complete
description of these formatting marks?)

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