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White Space: Normal Space Nonbreaking Space

This document provides an in-depth overview of special characters and formatting options in InDesign, including spaces, hyphens, line breaks, text flow breaks, markers, and menu locations. It includes screenshots showing the appearance of each character or option both inline and at line breaks.

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White Space: Normal Space Nonbreaking Space

This document provides an in-depth overview of special characters and formatting options in InDesign, including spaces, hyphens, line breaks, text flow breaks, markers, and menu locations. It includes screenshots showing the appearance of each character or option both inline and at line breaks.

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The InDesignSecrets Guide to

Special Characters in Adobe InDesign®

WHITE SPACE MAGNIFIED! These screen captures simulate 12 pt. type


viewed at 800% zoom level for easier identification.

Nonbreaking
Normal Space Space1
width = letterspace width = normal space
defined by typeface Cmd+Opt+X
Ctrl+Alt+X

Em Space Nonbreaking
width = pt. size of type
(24pt type, 24pt wide) Space (fixed
Cmd+Shift+M
Ctrl+Shift+M
width)2

Punctuation
En Space
width = 1/2 em space Space
Cmd+Shift+N width = period, colon,
Ctrl+Shift+N or exclamation point in
current typeface

Third Space Figure Space


width = numeral in
width = 1/3 em space
current typeface

Quarter Space Flush Space3


width = 1/4 em space width varies

Notes:
Sixth Space 1. The Nonbreaking space has the same flexible width as
width = 1/6 em space
the spacebar space (changing width slightly as needed
in fully-justified text), but prevents the line from break-
ing at the space character.
2. Prevents the line from breaking at the space character
Thin Space but does not adjust its width in justified text.
width = 1/8 em space 3. The Flush Space is only applicable in lines that are fully
Cmd+Shift+Opt+M justified. In left-, right-, or center-aligned lines, the
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+M Flush Space acts like a normal space.

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HYPHENS
Inline End of line

Hard hyphen
(entered manually)
The thin vertical blue line in
some of these examples is
a portion of the frame edge

Auto hyphen

Discretionary hyphen
Cmd+Shift+- (hyphen)
Ctrl+Shift+- (hyphen)

Nonbreaking hyphen By definition, nonbreaking


Cmd+Opt+- (hyphen) hyphens won’t appear
Ctrl+Alt+- (hyphen) at line breaks.

LINE BREAKS
Inline End of line

Forced line break By definition, forced line


Shift+Return/Enter breaks won’t appear inline.

Discretionary
line break
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TEXT FLOW BREAKS


Paragraph Page Break
Command+Enter
Break (Return) Ctrl+Enter

Column Break Odd Page


Enter Break

Frame Break Even Page


Shift+Enter Break

OTHER SPECIALS
End of text in Indent to Here
Cmd+\
this story Ctrl+\

Custom
Tab Anchored
Object

Right Indent Tab Split Footnote


Shift+Tab Only visible when frame
edges are showing

Non-joiner
Used to separate
ligature characters

Right-to-left
zero-width
non-joiner
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MARKERS
Layout Story Editor

Index Marker

Hyperlink (Source)
Default appearance

Text Anchor
A type of hyperlink destination

Cross-Reference
Source
Default appearance

Cross-Reference
Destination
Source links to this paragraph text

Conditional Text
Indicator color and style may vary

Hidden Conditional
Text
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MARKERS continued
Layout Story Editor

Inline Note
Marker color may vary

Endnote

Footnote
Not shown: Footnote text in layout

Text Variable
Shown is a Custom Text variable
containing the text “db” and
named DB

XML Tagged Text


Marker color and tag labels
may vary

Current Page Number


Same for Previous Page Number,
Next Page Number, and
page 5
Section Marker
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MENU LOCATIONS
Many of the characters in this guide can be found in
submenus of the Type menu, as shown below.

Insert Special Characters

Insert White Space

Insert Break Character


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Special Characters in Adobe InDesign 7

TEXT FRAME ADORNMENTS


Anchored
Object
Control

Live
Corners
Primary Control
Text Flow

Endnote OpenType
Frame features

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