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Showing hidden characters


    As you work with type, nonprinting characters are embedded into the file to indicate keyboard actions or states, such as spaces, returns (line breaks), and tabs. These characters include hard returns (line breaks), soft returns (line breaks), tabs, spaces, nonbreaking spaces, double-byte characters (including spaces), discretionary hyphens, other nonprinting characters, and end of text.

    These characters are by default hidden. To help you format and edit type, you can make the characters visible.

To show hidden characters:

    Choose Type > Show Hidden Characters. A check mark appears next to the menu command. To hide visible characters, choose the command to remove the check mark.