I don’t see much difference between using shift-spacebar or one of the other shortcuts you described. I don’t think it’s a limitation in OS X as a whole, because no other application seems to be affected by the problem (and that, of course, makes it very difficult to accept that things are now different in InDesign from all other applications, including Word, BBEdit, etc.). Next Post: Panther’s Mail: What is the Rank column for?ģ Responses to “Non-breaking space keyboard shortcut in InDesign CS”įebruary 26th, 2004 at Feb 26, 04 | 4:16 am Previous Post: Panther: Old problem with Dock menus still there You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Wednesday, February 25th, 2004 at 4:58 am and is filed under Macintosh. You’d think that, after two decades in the desktop publishing / page layout business, Adobe would know better than to change the shortcut for such a common thing! I also suppose that the fact that the on-line help still says “option-Spacebar” doesn’t mean much… That part of the document probably hasn’t been updated in ages. The non-breaking space is obviously much more frequently used in French than it is in English, so I suppose that not too many English-speaking people have complained to Adobe about it (and maybe the problem is fixed in the French version of InDesign CS). It’s as if the shortcut was intercepted by the system and not available at all. If I press the option-Spacebar combination while in that dialog, InDesign CS doesn’t do a thing. Then if I go to InDesign’s “Keyboard Shortcuts” dialog box to change the shortcut back to option-Spacebar, I find that I am unable to do so, not because the option-Spacebar is already assigned to another command, but because it doesn’t work at all. However, if I go to the “Insert White Space” sub-menu in the “Type” menu, the keyboard shortcut that appears next to the “Non-breaking Space” item is shift-Spacebar: – Press Ctrl+Alt+x (Windows) or Option+spacebar (Mac OS). – Choose Type > Insert White Space> Nonbreaking space (or any other white space character). Using the Type tool, click where you want to insert the space. This one is pretty strange… For some reason, I have been unable to use the usual keyboard shortcut (option-Spacebar) to enter a non-breaking space in InDesign CS.Īccording to the on-line help, this is still the valid keyboard shortcut in InDesign CS:ġ.