That Fancy......Thingy

In several books, the end of a section/paragraph/POV, there is a little picture in the middle of the page in between the two sections. How do you make that?
(or should I even worry about that at all? (I just find it interesting))

Well, I enter down and then center ***. I dunno about the picture though. However, for the ***, I've found that Microsoft word counts it as a separate word :) cheating? Probably. Oh well.

I went into the virtual keyboard and looked for special characters that looked kinda of neat. I ended up using four characters, actually two characters on the left and then mirror images of those characters on the right. Center justified - good to go! And yes, MS Word counts it as a word! I tried pasting them here but they didn't come out right.

http://www.noblesoftwaresolutions.com/Tips_And_Tricks/Word/FancyHorizontalLines.htm

(Use "Borders and Shading" for the fancy looking horizontal line dividers in MS Word)

~STS~

Moved from Reference Desk. OP noted.

This *** ?

That's just shift+8 .

Or you can go to Insert>Shapes and there's all sorts in there. They won't count in your word count, either.

Do you mean a scene break? In a lot of books they just leave an extra blank line.

Saphire: the fancy thingy is called a "dingbat." There are whole dingbat fonts, full of lots of 'em.

Scene breaks in proper manuscript format it is indecated as a hash #
I used that for mine, only in word. Scrivener just split it up into scenes all ready. In books it depends on the publishing house, it is their choice to use it in the book of not.

It's called a Glyph. Check the Smashwords Style Guide - there's a bit about it in there...