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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)


Hidden conditional text


Hidden conditional text (in Story Editor)


Bookmark or hyperlink destination marker


Bookmark or hyperlink destination marker (in Story Editor)


Hyperlink destination (in Story Editor)


Cross-reference hyperlink (in Story Editor)


Cross-referenced paragraph


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)


Index marker (in Story Editor)