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Working with Hidden Characters in Microsoft Word. Copy, and paste.” Set default paste. Dropdown settings for “cut, copy and paste.” A few months later, quite by accident, I discovered that the little character causing all the trouble was called a nonbreaking space. This character tells Microsoft Word to keep consecutive words together. Jan 27, 2017 Non-breaking spaces do technically work Copy Paste: ( ) or Alt+0160, but 1) it’s not what they are meant to be used for, 2) it can make your writing look funky and messed up if you have them in the wrong places for the page (which will be inevitable.
I have two 'identical' 5-character strings in my text editors (Sublime Text2 Notepad).The first string was copied from Gmail and the second one just typed by hand.When I select the first string, I see 6 characters selected.When I select the second string, I see 5 characters selected.When I select both strings in Sublime Text2 at the same time, I can see that there is an extra space selected after the first string.I enabled 'Display all characters' in Notepad but don't see anything obviously different between the first and the second string.The file uses UTF-8 encoding. And the issue is consistent in both text editors.Can anyone please advise how to remove the invisible extra character and where it came from? This worked for me in sublime 3 without using a hex editor.Using normal search and replace. Open replace dialog (Ctr + H). enter the Unicode char U200B in 'Find What' (.See below for tips). leave the 'Replace With' empty.
Replace All/. To get the Unicode char in there in the first place, use you're OS's method. Windows - Hold Alt and type the Unicode code. Linux - Ctrl + Shift + u, without releasing Ctrl and shift, type the code. Sublime under Linux - As for Linux except it's Ctrl + Alt +Shift.
(Sublime 3 binds Ctrl + Shift + u for 'soft redo')Also, if you know where the char is in sublime you can just select it with shift + Arrow, you'll know you've got it because the cursor doesn't move, it just gets a bit thicker:-).