Here’s a Word 2011 document showing invisible characters. Most of the requests I get on this topic concern turning invisibles off, because since the user often doesn’t know how he turned those invisible characters on, he also doesn’t know how to turn them off. Press and hold Alt + 8211 or Alt + 0150 on the numeric keypad. ![]() Those characters are just as “charactery” as anything else you type– they take up space, they’re copy and paste-able, you can give them a point size– but they’re invisible, and they don’t print. Click in a placeholder, text box, shape containing text or a table where you wish to insert a nonbreaking space. Microsoft Word on the Mac has a nice feature that lets you show invisible (non-printing) characters such as returns, tabs, and spaces. Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them. Just delete the existing regular space between the words. ![]() Unbreakable spaces are absolutely necessary before some punctuation in French (before and : particularly). To do this, you need to insert a non-breaking space between the words unduly and burdensome. I switch from English to French and vice versa all day long when I work. You dont want to sell your soul for a Windows license or squander away your hard drive shekels running a virtual machine. There's no symbol for unbreakable space in the menu 'Insert Symbol'. There’s a keyboard shortcut for toggling invisible characters (like paragraph marks, and spaces, and tabs) in Microsoft Word on a Mac and as far as I know it’s worked in every version, since the very beginning. The shortcut 'Ctrl+Shift+Sapce' doesn't work.
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