What character is this?

Question

I'm working on an existing InDesign document in my company with a lot of text and text frames. I've seen this useful character that pushes text to the next text frame created, but I can't seem to figure out what it is or where I can find it. I've been just copying and pasting it as needed.

Mike Witherell · Accepted Answer

That is the Column Break character, part of the world of non-printing hidden characters in typesetting in InDesign.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/editing-text.html

A shortcut for it is to press Enter on the numeric keypad You can also press and hold Fn while pressing Return on a laptop that does not have the extended numeric keypad.

Don't you wish there was a 1-page list of all symbolic onscreen characters used in InDesign? 😉

Robert at ID-Tasker · Answer

Enter on the numeric keyboard:  https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/break-character-shortcuts-wrong/td-p/14795444

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