That symbol in word to let you see the page formatting is the ¶ paragraph symbol. If you can't see all of your choices in Word, it's because it only displays those you've used recently. Look for those little double arrows over the down arrow symbols on your toolbar and it will show you the others.

I wrote my thesis in Word--an earlier version that didn't keep trying to change my formatting all over the place. I dislike how Word keeps adopting the formatting of any text you cut and paste it. My remedy for that is to paste everything into Notepad first, then select and copy it into Word. It strips out the formatting (except for hard returns).

SRS