A carriage return. This keystroke is what separates one paragraph from another.
In word processing, a line break that is manually created by pressing the Enter key. It is a character input that indicates that the present line of text has ended and a new line is to begin. It causes the cursor to move down one line and left to the beginning of the new line. A hard return stays in place when text is added or deleted. In contrast, a soft return is created automatically at the end of a line of text, but moves if text is added or deleted above it. In word-processing programs that wordwrap automatically, a hard return is still needed to create the space separating paragraphs. In programs that lack a wordwrap feature, a hard return is needed to end each line. Hard return is also called hard carriage return. See also FORCED PAGE BREAK SOFT RETURN WORDWRAP
a return that you explicitly enter by pressing the Return or Enter
A line ending created by pressing Enter
A line break created by pressing the Enter/Return key, as opposed to a soft return, which a program creates automatically at the end of a line. Unlike a soft return, a hard return stays in place when one inserts and deletes text.
Made by pressing the return key. A hard return, or carriage return, creates a line break and identifies the end of a paragraph.
output: A carriage return that will always end the current line regardless of where it is on the page. In a word processor, a hard return starts a new paragraph.
a return created by the Return or Enter key, as opposed to a word-wrap, or soft return, which will adjust according to the character count and column width.
Coming home after a week's vacation in Northern Wisconsin When you hit the Enter key while typing rather than allow the text to wrap around when it reaches the margin. Hard returns are searchable, when using the Find function in word processing. So, for instance, you could reformat a poem into a paragraph by searching the hard returns and replacing them with spaces.
A line break created by actually pressing the Enter key. deebi'uu View
In an Interleaf textfile, a control character created by pressing Shift-Enter that causes text to wrap to the next line.
A hard return is a paragraph break in a word processor. It differs from a soft return in that it starts a new paragraph.