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How can you elect to see paragraph marks, newlines, and similar non-printing characters?


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Please excuse my question if I've failed to see something that's evident, but I cannot find in Affinity Publisher Beta a way of toggling on and off the viewing of non-printing characters, such as paragraph marks, newline characters, spaces, tab characters, and so on, within text-frame text.

If someone could please show me how to make these characters visible, I'd much appreciate it. Thanks in anticipation.

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Found it: Text menu > Show Special Characters

Searching in Help for 'special characters', then clicking on the six question marks ??????, and scrolling down to the bottom of the resulting help article, will reveal this information.

Thanks Seneca, just saw your reply after posting mine.

Edited by PatrickOfLondon
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Hi Ken Emeigh,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
What version are you using (Affinity Publisher Beta ▸ About...)? The latest version is 1.7.0.57

[EDIT] This is indeed a known bug as carl123 pointed out. Restarting the app as suggested should fix the issue. If not press and hold ⌃(ctrl) while launching the app then select Clear from the dialog that will open.

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@Ken Emeigh

That menu is from Affinity Photo ,which is a reported bug, try restarting Publisher again.

To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.

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I tried to use the search icon to find special characters as I read in another post somewhere. I was able to enter them into the find, and by copying and pasting, also in the replace box, however the boxes for replace and replace all  remained greyed out.

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4 minutes ago, jrkay said:

I tried to use the search icon to find special characters as I read in another post somewhere. I was able to enter them into the find, and by copying and pasting, also in the replace box, however the boxes for replace and replace all  remained greyed out.

The buttons for Replace and Replace All are not active until you have actually found something and the search results are showing. Do they remain greyed out when you press Find and actually locate the text from the Find box?

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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Strange. Report it as a bug, in the appropriate OS bug forum?

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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7 minutes ago, jrkay said:

Correction, they do stay greyed out when I press find.

When you press find are the character actually found and highlighted in the text?

To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.

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Then that's why Replace and Replace All are greyed out. You must have a results list before they will work.

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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Hello! I am totally new here! I'm glad Patricko'London posted this question, it's exactly what I came here to find. I couldn't find it in my previous beta, but I'm used to calling them invisibles, so I might have just missed it. After reading the question I opened my brand new beta version and it was there. Just out of curiosity I'm going to load my previous beta to see what's there.  Thanks. I'll go to the intro forums next, but I was glad to find this and had to post. Thx again.

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