I recently (this past week) up-revved from something pretty old to 24.8.0.3, and just discovered that I can no longer enter non-breaking spaces (ctl-shift-spacebar). This is something I do fairly frequently. It's not just a question of whether they display--I've made sure "field shadings" under View is on. I've tested it by creating a lot of single-character "words", attempting to insert non-breaking spaces between them, then inserted text ahead of them. As each reaches the margin, that one character is moved to the next line. Here's version info: Version: 24.8.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 0bdf1299c94fe897b119f97f3c613e9dca6be583 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
Have you verified if it is defined in Menu>Tools>Customize>Keyboard? Please test in safe mode, Menu/Help/Restart in Safe Mode
Worse yet. All the existing non-breaking spaces (dozens, in my document with several hundred pages) are now no longer there.
(In reply to m_a_riosv from comment #1) > Have you verified if it is defined in Menu>Tools>Customize>Keyboard? > > Please test in safe mode, Menu/Help/Restart in Safe Mode I have now done so. I had not previously, because (1) I never had even seen this section (Menu>Tools>Customize>Keyboard) before and didn't know it existed, (2) in researching the problem (information on non-breaking spaces) NOT ONE TIME was this mentioned as something that needed to be set up, and (3) why would an update to a new rev change any settings of this sort? But at any rate, for Ctrl+Shift+Space it shows "Insert No-break space". And as I noted (admittedly since your reply), I discovered that previously existing no-break spaces are now gone. From my point of view, this is a serious problem.
(In reply to Dave Lovelace from comment #3) > (In reply to m_a_riosv from comment #1) > > Have you verified if it is defined in Menu>Tools>Customize>Keyboard? > > > > Please test in safe mode, Menu/Help/Restart in Safe Mode > > I have now done so. I had not previously, because (1) I never had even seen > this section (Menu>Tools>Customize>Keyboard) before and didn't know it > existed, (2) in researching the problem (information on non-breaking spaces) > NOT ONE TIME was this mentioned as something that needed to be set up, and > (3) why would an update to a new rev change any settings of this sort? But > at any rate, for Ctrl+Shift+Space it shows "Insert No-break space". > > And as I noted (admittedly since your reply), I discovered that previously > existing no-break spaces are now gone. From my point of view, this is a > serious problem. Hmph! I did as you asked, and restarted in safe mode. Empty document. I entered a bunch of individual letters, separating some with ctrl-shift-space, some with spaces, then entered text at the very beginning until they started wrapping off the right margin. Contrary to what I observed earlier, the groups separated with no-break spaces did wrap together. I went back to normal mode, and observed the same. I don't know whether things changed between my two tests or whether my observations were wrong the first time. I incline toward the latter, but don't know whether opening in safe mode could affect this (even after returning to normal mode). HOWEVER, I am unable to tell by looking whether the no-break spaces are there or not. According to everything I found (first round of research), what controls this is View->Field Shadings. It doesn't matter whether that is checked or not; no shading shows. So do I need to enter another bug report to get THAT in? I really do need to be able to see whether these things (both non-breaking hyphens and non-breaking spaces) are correctly present. (I'll add that this is a good example of why I always hesitate to up-rev. In my experience, it ALWAYS breaks something that was working.)
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see your bug 162876, the NBS and Soft-hyphens are not visible by default and are set by checkbox from Tools -> Options -> LO Writer -> Formatting Aids Toggle is now by <Ctrl>+F10 rather than previous <Ctrl>+F8 of field shading. otherwise the <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<Space> is default assigned to .uno:InsertNonBreakingSpace