In LO Writer:
Control-Shift-Space puts a grey mark. Even if display formatting is off.
Unless I've reprogrammed it:
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Non-breaking spaces. Non-breaking spaces are not used for hyphenation and are not expanded if the text is justified.
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I can select it in the doc and copy/paste into find. But the "short cut" doesn't enter one in find. Find & Replace of the pasted character works.
I don't believe in them for ebooks or PDFs or PDFs for paper. I suppose they are useful in real web pages.
I've used email since 1987 for documents and even on phones since 2000. From 75 bps to 14.4 bps. My Internet was only 19.2 kbps till the end of 2005.
I use 1 Gbps LAN, private, to move content between computers. My broadband is 8 Mbps and not always available.
I've used Google Docs in the past because an organisation I was in used it. I accept some individuals find Google Docs fine, but lots of people use Web mail or Word like a glass typewriter. Also privacy. Can Google be trusted? Why is it free?
There is no assurance in a few minutes time that you won't lose a mobile or broadband connection. Google & MS Cloud uptime is far worse than my attic server. I've had a real server at home since 1995. Before that it was one PC with Win3.1x sharing.