Need help searching for a space character from a converted Quark doc

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October 21, 2025
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Hello. I am hoping someone hear has an answer for this. We have been converting our old Quark docs into Indesign using Markwarz Q to ID plug in. Some of the Quark docs, someone used a standard non breaking space. When converted, we get a random character inserted where that space would be. It prints, so it's something we would like to remove faster than going page-by-page looking for it.

I have found no way to search for that space. It doesn't copy, and any variation of searching I do, it comes up with nothing. Tried GREP even. See attachment. Circled in red.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Type

Correct answer Joel Cherney

Also the home/end trick did not find anything.

Nope, I guessed wrong. But the true identity of the dropped glyph was actually in the Info panel:

Scott Falkner

Community Expert

Can you edit the original QuarxPress files? You could replace the non-breaking spaces there with normal spaced then do the conversion in the modified docs. If you can't, perhaps because you don't have a compatible version of QuarkXpress, perhaps someone here can do it.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

What version are the Quark files?

Are you using the current markzware Omni/IDMarks, or is this an old Q2ID plugin?

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BsmithMTPAuthor

Known Participant

Quark 9 or older and yes, it was the older Q2ID plugin. The new one I am using (QXPMarkz 2023) doesn't seem to have this issue, but since so many of our docs have already been converted over the years, it's becoming an issue with them getting in the final publications.