cbordey Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 (edited) I'm running into this issue a lot where I want to move text up on the page or even into the previous page. To do so I place the cursor at the beginning of the text I want to move and press backspace. Instead of moving the text up, the first line simply changes from one paragraph style to another... Edited August 7, 2020 by cbordey wording Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfriedberg Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Backspace probably doesn't mean what you think it means. In text context, it means "delete the character before the cursor". And when the cursor is at the beginning of a paragraph, the immediately preceding charater is the paragraph mark for the preceding paragraph. When you delete that paragraph mark, the two paragraphs are merged, using the paragraph properties of the following paragraph . Your example has some other complications, like initial words and/or character overrides, but that's basically what's going on. I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that you are accustomed to removing blank lines by backspacing over them (deleting them). If the spacing is due to inter-paragraph spacing properties, that won't work. You can turn on hidden characters to display line breaks and paragraph breaks, which will make much clearer what is happening when you backspace over (and delete) one of those hidden characters. walt.farrell and cbordey 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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