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361 Use the No Break option to format characters - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
361 Use the No Break option to format characters
- [Instructor] One of the most useful features in InDesign for setting type is the character formatting attribute called, No Break. It lets you select a couple words or a phrase and then set it so that the words don't break at the end of the line, thus the name, No Break. And the command can be found in many places. Here, I'm going to the control panel menu, and there you see No Break. So I select No Break, and both words stick together. Now there is a problem with No Break, in that you can't tell where it's been applied. If you go to the Type menu and you turn on Show Hidden Characters, it would be nice if something like a squiggle or something appeared under words to which you've applied No Break, but that's not true. The only way to tell if something has No Break in it, is to actually click inside it, and then look inside the control panel menu, and if a check mark appears, yes, No Break has been applied. So if I select this phrase and come up here, nope, No Break has not been…
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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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