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Conandy
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Old January 11th, 2019, 07:35 PM
This issue is happening any time I use CTRL-Enter to create a new snippet below the one my cursor is in, and only when I am using the Read Aloud snippet style.

When I hit CTRL-Enter and the new snippet appears, I start typing and the font is always Calibri, despite the fact that the snippet style is defined as Comic Sans MS. I actually don't have any of my snippet styles defined as Calibri, which makes this even weirder.

It actually seems that there is a hidden or invisible character inserted at the beginning of the snippet, because I can right arrow past this one or two characters. It takes two right arrow key presses, the first doesn't move the cursor at all and the second press moves it once, and then I can start typing and the font will be correct, but this leaves a blank space at the beginning. I can then backspace to get rid of the phantom character(s), after which everything is fine.

I tried defining Read Aloud style as a different font. In this case, Century Schoolbook. The same thing happened, but this time the phantom font character was inserted as Times New Roman. WEIRD!

After copying the phantom character out of RW and into Word, it appears to be some kind of space or formatting character that shows as a little hollow circle when I tell Word to display "space characters". I found a chart on the web that seems to define it as a "nonbreaking space". I have no idea what that is.

This does NOT happen if I use the tool button on the right and "Add Snippet Below". The phantom character is not created this way, only with the CTRL-Enter.

I have tried this with every other defined snippet style, and not of them produce the same results. Only the Read Aloud style.

Before I submit a ticket, I just wanted to see what the community experience with this is, if any.

Thanks for any insight.
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