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i.t.i.p. Tip – InDesign

A New Non-Breaking Space Character

You might have noticed that Adobe introduced a second "non-breaking space" character with InCopy/InDesignCS3. The new one behaves in principle like the "old" one, but has no fixed width. This means, it will be stretched or shrunk during the composition, if you use a "justify" paragraph alignment.

The bad news is that they decided to assign the familiar keyboard shortcut "Cmd-Alt-X"/"Ctrl-Alt-X" to the new one! So be aware that your automatically typed "Cmd-Alt-X"/"Ctrl-Alt-X" characters won't have the usual fixed width.

Of course you can change the keyboard shortcuts by using the usual technique: "Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts".

Rudi Warttmann, Adobe Certified Instructor