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Hi everyone, especially Affinity Team, there is one thing in text editing, that bugs me for quite some time: if you move a word in MS Word or similar, the program usually takes into account the surrounding of the word, i.e. if a moved word has single space before and after in its original location, it will have a single space in its new location. If you move a word like this before a full stop, comma, colon or similar character, it will wedge itself right before said character. In other words, this is a quite logical and expected behaviour. Meanwhile, APu just takes the word, sometimes with a following space, sometimes not, and just puts it wherever you drop it. Usually it attaches to a word next to the new position, which creates a strange situation, when I have to 1) move the word, 2) separate it from the word it randomly gets attached to, and 3) remove the superfluous space. Which is usually located on the other end of the word. This behaviour, along with the standard keyboard abbreviation for word jump (Alt + arrow) being used for nudge, makes moving words quite a nightmare... Could you please fix it? My suggestion: if I move a word with a single space before and after: to a single space between two words -> the moved word will have a single space before and after on a new location. The old location will have a single space. right before a separating character (full stop, comma, colon etc.) -> the moved word will jump right before the separating character, leaving a space before, but not after similar behaviour for a word before a separating character, when moved in a single space between two words. Is it possible? And would you do it? Thanks a lot, have a nice day!