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What’s The Break Keyboard Character?

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Terre Dunivant wrote:
What is that icon/shortcut next to Type > Insert Break Characters >Column Break? (also Frame Break, Page Break…)

Great question, Terre. These symbols on the Macintosh aren’t always obvious. However, InDesign for Windows spells it out clearly: That’s the NumEnter key (Enter on the numeric keypad). So, for example, to type a Page Break character, type Ctrl-NumEnter.

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  • Jim Wible says:

    I am confounded by the sudden inabilitty of the numeric keypad to function. How do I turn it on and off?

  • Jim, the only way I know to turn the numeric keypad on or off is with the Num Lock key, which most computer keyboards offer.

  • Richard Ellis says:

    Is it possible to perform a find/replace for column/frame breaks in CS2. This has been added to CS3, however I need it in CS2..

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  • Great! What do you do if you have one of those new apple keyboards that doesn’t have numbers? I would like to use the page break command.

    • Carol Metzger says:

      I wanted a shortcut for “insert column break.” (Was numeric enter). I could not change the default set, but was able to make a new set with the shortcut changed to Command+M.

  • Elissa says:

    Hello David Blatner,
    I watched all of your InDesign videos for a college class on InDesign, and I am a fan. You were fun and informative to watch. I am working on a design project right now for another class, and I need to add page breaks into 160 pages of threaded text. I remembered that you were real big on keyboard shortcuts and have been researching it trying to find one that would help speed things up a little bit. So far everything says that the answer is Command-Num-Shift. I have a Mac keyboard that doesn’t have a numbers key pad. Is there an easier way to do this besides pulling Type, Insert Break Character, Page Break down from the menu 160 times?
    Sincerely,
    Elissa

  • Alex Mac says:

    It doesn’t seem possible to even Copy and Paste the Page Break symbol… if we knew what it actually was :-) All very strange.

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