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Understanding formatting characters (invisibles)

Each time you press the Space bar, the Tab key, or the Return key, or add a column, section, or page break, Pages inserts a formatting character in the document. Documents are set not to show these formatting characters on the screen, but you can make them visible by clicking View in the toolbar and choosing Show Invisibles.

When you press or choose

This formatting character appears

The Space bar

Option-Space (creates a non-breaking space)

Tab

Return

Shift-Return (creates a line break in the middle of a paragraph)

Insert > Page Break

Insert > Column Break

Insert > Layout Break

Insert > Section Break

Wherever you insert an object that moves with text as you type