Text marks

Text marks are non-printing characters that can be shown within your text to confirm the positions of:

Text marks appear only in the document view, not in output of your document.

You might show special characters to identify why text is not flowing as expected. For example, page breaks and non-breaking spaces in a Microsoft Word document are preserved when the document is placed in Affinity. The characters may improve content's structure and readability in its original format, but produce undesirable text flow through your publication's text frames in Affinity.

Showing and hiding text marks

Visibility of each type of text mark can be toggled by selecting its corresponding menu command.

Type of text mark Example Menu command
Anchors Example of an anchor Text>Interactive>Show Anchors
Fields Example of a highlighted field Text>Highlight Fields
Index marks Example of an index mark Text>Index>Show Index Marks
Note marks Example of a note mark Text>Notes>Show Note Marks
Special characters1 Example of right tab and paragraph break special characters Text>Show Special Characters
Spelling mistakes Example of a marked spelling mistake Text>Spelling>Check Spelling While Typing

1 Special characters include but are not limited to the right tab stop and paragraph marker (as shown).

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