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Dots instead of spaces
Thread poster: Marco Solinas
Marco Solinas
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Nov 7, 2018

This morning all my Studio 2011 files started showing dots where there should be spaces. I probably pressed a combination of keys that changed the way the text is displayed in the screen. This is an irritant and I would like to eliminate. Does anyone know how I can do this?
Thank you for your suggestions.
 
wotswot
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I urge you to keep them Nov 7, 2018

The dots do indeed represent spaces, but I'd urge you to keep this setting as is, because there are two types of spaces, ordinary and "hard" (or non-breaking) spaces, and it's often important to visualise non-breaking spaces (for instance between a figure and a unit of measurement) for page layout purposes.
Non-breaking spaces are shown as bigger bold dots.
 
Marco Solinas
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Thank you Wotswot. Nov 7, 2018

Your point is well taken. However, would you know how to eliminate the dots?
 
Silke Walter
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Hide them Nov 7, 2018

You can hide them by clicking this icon:

Formatting
 
Marco Solinas
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Thank you Nov 7, 2018

Thank you Silke. It worked.
 


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