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Key command for non-breaking spaces

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April 5, 2023
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I use the key commands for non-breaking spaces (option+command-x) and non-breaking hyphens (option+command-) all the time. Those will work one minute, but randomly stop working. As of late, the non-breaking hyphen works consistantly, but the non-breaking space command doesn't work at all. Please help solve this!

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @Sulaco:

Thank you for coming back to answer the questions. I'm on a Mac, but I've never had an issue with the shortcut not working and it works just fine in placeholder text – I just tried it. I think this needs to be reported on the uservoice page—one of you can report it, come back and add the link to the report here and the other one can vote for it.

https://indesign.uservoice.com/

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Sulaco

Inspiring

Thanks for replying @Barb Binder

Intersting! Wonder if its related to Windows... I can't login to Uservoice with my Adobe ID anymore, suppose I need to register a new user, quite annoying. I will do some further testing and try and get around to posting about this over there. But I feel like it's a bit like shouting into a black void... usually just means that I am wasing my time and nothing ever happens...

@Wynn292677130srr Doesn't seem like we are suffering from the same problem. Hope you can resolve your problem, but I suppose the Menu command always worked for you, right?

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Shanpub

Inspiring

Hi, @Wynn292677130srr are you using the default keyboard Shortcuts Set or do you have any specific keyboard set?
If your using a different keyboard set then make a copy and select a different keyboard set.
Sometimes this happened to me.

Sulaco

Inspiring

I can't get the non-breaking spaces to work any more either. It's been like this for at least a year. It used to work fine, now it just refuses to play ball at all. Suspecting something is wrong with how InDesign prioritises the text flow rule set.

Resetting the preferences will not fix this. Have the problems on several machines, including at work.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @Sulaco:

We need additional information to help.

Operating system?
Version of InDesign?
Does the menu command work (Type > Insert White Space > Non-breaking space) but the keyboard command does not?
Is the expected shortcut listed next to the menu command?
Are you working with Hidden Characters visible?

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Just realized the comment from Barb wasn't for me. Hopefully my comment of adding the function key to the key command will help @Sulaco .

All the best!

Hi @Wynn292677130srr:

Your detail was actually really helpful. 😀 I'm also on Ventura 13.1.1 and InDesign 18.2.1 (MacBook Pro with an Fn key) and both the menu and keyboard commands work as expected with the extra step.

I asked about having hidden characters visible, thinking perhaps it is working, but you didn't know. InDesign uses a dot to indicate a space, and a caret to indicate a non-breaking space, but it sounds like you have a handle on the feature.

I'm baffled as to why adding Fn works. Maybe @Steve Werner has some insight on that one?

Two closing thoughts:

I recommend taking a moment to report this to Adobe as a bug on https://indesign.uservoice.com/ and reference this thread.
And I'm curious to hear back from @Sulaco to see if the Fn key solves this issue.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Steve Werner

Community Expert

What I would try to do is restore your InDesign preferences and caches. Here's a link which explains how:

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

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