Section Symbol Law
Select the section symbol by clicking on it.
Section symbol law. Paragraph and section marks insert a nonbreaking space. If you want to save yourselves all of these steps in the future assign a shortcut key to the section symbol by clicking on the shortcut key button while the section symbol is highlighted in the list above. 5 although not an ideal solution you could also try copying and pasting the symbol from this page into your document and then adjusting the size to fit the rest of your font text.
Press fn key plus numlk to turn on num lock for small laptops that has no numeric keypad. Creating the section symbol in word documents. Title 16 of the united states code section 580p becomes 16 us code 580p which shows the section sign in place of united.
The section sign is a typographical glyph for referencing individually numbered sections of a document. 6 on a macbook air running osx high sierra. The section sign also known as a section mark section symbol double s or paragraph mark in parts in europe is a character used in legal code and is a punctuation mark this character is used to refer to a section in legal code.
Click on the insert button. In the set section of the symbol screen choose the typographic symbols and a list of symbols will display. It is also known as the section symbol section mark double s or silcrow.
It is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. To type the section symbol on windows hold down the alt key then type the symbol alt code 0167 on the numeric keypad then release the alt key. For example in the apa style.
To create the section symbol in word documents that adhere to the bnc guidelines follow these steps. The para graph mark is used when cit ing doc u ments with se quen tially num bered para graphs e g de c la ra tions or com plaints the sec tion mark is used when cit ing doc u ments with num bered or let tered sec tions e g statutes. The above information is enough to help you insert the section symbol into your document.