What is this strange symbol in Microsoft Word and how can I use it?

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It marks the end of the text in a table cell (all characters in above picture are the same).

Positioning your cursor to the left of them after the table enables you to insert new row / column in the table (right-click - insert; or simply press Enter).

You can't delete / insert them, but you can hide by pressing "show/hide" in home tab - paragraph group; or with the keyboard shortcut CTRL+(.

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i think it part of show/hide invisible characters (space, breaks etc)

find this in the home ribbon and click that

show/hide