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013 A field guide to special characters - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
013 A field guide to special characters
Anne-Marie Concepcion: When you're working closely with text, as I am here zoomed way in, if you've turned on Hidden Characters which you do from under the Type menu-- right now it says Hide Hidden Characters because I am showing them-- you might be flummoxed a bit by some of the weird special characters or hidden characters that appear. I mean we all know what this little dot is, right. That's a single space. So if I typed another one we'd see two dots in a row. And if I added a tab, I'll just press the Tab key, we see the double chevrons. That's normal. But what about some of these other characters that like we can even see in this one little bit of text. For example this guy here. What the heck is this thing? A little arrow kind of thing pointed up with some dots above it and if you're not sure if that's an actual character that somebody just happened to color blue or not, you can always just hide the special characters that is signifying something and then show the Hidden…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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