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Simple thing # sign icon

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January 18, 2024
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It's a simple thing, but what is this number sign at the beginning of my INDD document?

It also appears at the start of every page, and at the end of the document?
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Correct answer Willi Adelberger

Not here. Here are 2 text frames on the same place.

Mike Witherell

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It is called the End-of-Story marker, a whitespace character. It is the first thing you see in an empty textframe. It is not backspace deletable. I keep a published list of illustrated definitions of ALL InDesign symbols on my website.

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andrew34878320afudAuthor

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what is the address of your website?

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Mike Witherell

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trainingonsite.com

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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As pointed out by @Willi Adelberger:

Frans v.d. Geest

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In every empty text frame you will see the # when Show Hidden Characters is on. When you add text, this # will move to the end, it means: there is no more text after this. It is kind of the opposite of the red + overset symbol 😉

Willi Adelberger

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Not here. Here are 2 text frames on the same place.

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andrew34878320afudAuthor

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Yes Willi. You are right. Is this a problem? I have 2 text frame boxes on every page. I know why. When I created the New Document I checked PRIMARY TEXT FRAME. Then I placed the book in with SHIFT CLICK, SHIFT CLICK created a text frame on a text frame.

Is this a problem?

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Willi Adelberger

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It is an empty text frame. Modst probably from the master/parent page.

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andrew34878320afudAuthor

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So even though I have text on a page, a number sign appears at the top of that page, from a parent page, because the parent page has an empty text frame box associated with it? Picture below from the top of a page:

And then I get a double #, start and end of a page, if it's the last page?

So just ignored it I suppose.

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Willi Adelberger

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Obviousely you have overlapping text frames. It is a no-go as subsequent paragtaph returns are not allowed to create space between paragraphs.

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