Comments on: Free Guide to InDesign Special Characters

By: Dare Porter

Dare Porter — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:46:55 +0000

Dear am (a nice, playful letter-pair of your own;), Thank you! The yen note mark that positions an anchored object was bedeviling me as I reworked a textbook layout. I discovered your site a few days ago, and I too was disappointed that you didn’t include the keystrokes needed for each secret. But then I found the key strokes, on this site I think, but can’t find them now. Are they here somewhere, or elsewhere?

By: Madeline

Madeline — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:27:09 +0000

Wish I’d thought to look this up earlier! Thanks!

By: Amina Ali

Amina Ali — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:37:22 +0000

I understand about hidden characters. I left my document open over night and when I came back the hidden characters looked different, for example, the space icon was now an “indent here” icon. Is there a key command that I might have done to change them? How do I change back?

Thanks!
Amina

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:39:14 +0000

Note: I updated the guide this morning with the Split Footnote indicator, as explained in this post.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:31:31 +0000

Trish, thanks! In answer to your question, because em dashes and en dashes are actual characters that print. The “special characters” in the chart are the ones that disappear when you choose Type > Hide Hidden Characters.

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:08:43 +0000

This is AWESOME!!!!!

Although I was wondering why was em-dash and en-dash excluded from the list…

By: Lisette

Lisette — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:06:40 +0000

This job aid is too totally cool!
Thank you!

By: Paulo Fialho

Paulo Fialho — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:10:32 +0000

Thank You. Very useful.

By: Patti

Patti — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:54:24 +0000

Thank you, thank you!

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:52:15 +0000

Thank you Anne-Marie! This goes great with the shortcut posters I gott from you guys!

The one space that I found I “had” to make a shortcut for was the flush space. Just couldn’t live without it. My typesetting experience dates back to an EditWriter 7500 from CompuGraphics…that should explain my love of the flush space!

I appreciate all of the time and effort that everyone puts into this site!!! Thanks a million!!!