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View hidden (nonprinting) characters

  Choose Type > Show Hidden Characters.

Nonprinting characters such as those for spaces, tabs, ends of paragraphs, index markers, and ends of stories appear. These special characters are visible only in a document window and a story editor window; they don’t print or output to formats such as PDF and XML. The hidden characters appear in the same color as the layer color.

Nonprinting characters hidden (top) and visible (bottom)

List of hidden characters

Hidden character

What it represents

End of Paragraph

Soft return (line break)

Space

End of Story

Discretionary Hyphen

Nonbreaking Hyphen

Tab

Right Indent Tab

Indent to Here

End Nested Style Here

Non-Joiner

Em Space

En Space

Nonbreaking Space

Nonbreaking Space (Fixed Width)

Hair Space

Sixth Space

Thin Space

Quarter Space

Third Space

Punctuation Space

Figure Space

Flush Space

Column Break

Frame Break

Page Break

Odd Page Break

Even Page Break

Forced Line Break

InCopy Note

InCopy Note (in Story Editor)

Position marker (InCopy only)

Index marker

Index marker (in Story Editor)

Bookmark or hyperlink destination marker

Bookmark or hyperlink destination marker (in Story Editor)

Hyperlink source (in Story Editor)

Anchored object

Anchored object (in Story Editor)

XML tag

XML tag (in Story Editor)

Footnote (in Story Editor)

Table (in Story Editor)

Variable (in Story Editor)

 

Hyperlink anchor (in Story Editor)

Index marker (in Story Editor)


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