red dot in links (invisible character)

Hi all

Here's a snippet I took from Dreamweaver when I copied some text in from MS Word

Sorry it's so small. 

Same thing here, but I use two Macs for work, one with High Sierra, I believe the other, an iMac, has Sierra (not accessible at this moment, as the office is under construction, I'm WAH for the period it lasts). Both have the problem. It took me a while to figure what was happening, as the red dot is not visible in DW and it causes links to not work, they get the path to the file prepended to the actual link on browsers. What I do is copy the link to TextEdit, select only the link and copy it back, that removes the extra character, but still, it shouldn't be happening.

Can't help you on the why, but I can tell you what that is.

That red dot is a no-width unicode character. For me it is usually unicode 200B, 200C or 200D. I get this issue a lot when cleaning up the garbage from line areas to make the content publishable.

Zero-width space - Wikipedia

Can't help you as to why you would get it while typing (not a Mac person any more). You might want to check your keyboard bindings as you might have it bound to a specific key stroke.

Addendum:This is what the above code looks like in word with show hidden characters turned on.

dw202  wrote Since the last update (I believe as this started recently), if I rename a file in Dreamweaver interface, or retype the link inside html code, sometimes, a red dot appears in front of the link, like this:

Do you see this in Dreamweaver or in a browser?

dw202  wrote If I copy/paste it, red dot will not show up, but using arrows will show I need to hit it twice to pass that spot, so the character is there, whatever that is. It's only visible in the form of that dot.

I am sorry, this is very confusing. May I ask that you show us your code (HTML and CSS) so that we get a better understanding of the problem. A link to your site is the best way forward.