Plus (+) sign within a circle

often, when I create a Word document, a plus sign (+) within a circle appears on the left page margin.  I cannot figure out what feature or benefit this has to the document and cannot find it in SEARCH.  Anyone have information?

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Click the ¶ icon on the Home tab to display nonprinting marks. You will see any inserted tables more clearly because each cell will be terminated by an end-of-cell marker and each row will be terminated by an end-of-row marker (¤).

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If you activate the View tab of the ribbon, is Outline in the Views tab highlighted? If so, the + signs are outlining buttons - you can use them to expand/collapse parts of the document.

Select Print Layout to get out of Outline view.

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