Ken Ray wrote: > On 8/13/05 6:21 PM, "Erik Hansen" <erikhans08 at yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>what is a hard space? > > > A "hard space" is ASCII 202 (which on a Mac you can get by typing > Option-Space) Perhaps it's worth adding that: Non-breaking space is character 202 in Mac Roman. But it is 160 in Latin-1, Ansi and Unicode. Martin Baxter