Help with forced (soft) line breaks—PLEASE!

[SWriverstone]

I've been using InDesign 2.0 for quite a while. I've never bothered to upgrade because 2.0 does what I need it do perfectly...until now!

For years, I've drawn a text box, then clicked the text tool inside the box and started typing. When I want to do a forced line break (soft return), I'd just type Shift+Enter, and the text coninues on the next line (assume there is plenty of room in the text box for the text).

Now, all of a sudden, this isn't working! Every time I type Shift+Enter, the rest of my text just disappears, and the little plus-sign appears in the out port. (And this happens even if my text box is the size of the whole page.)

I've obviously done something, but I have no idea what? I've tried everything. Does anyone here know why forced line breaks would suddenly not work and cause text to disappear?

Thanks!
Scott

 

[SWriverstone]

Okay, well I think I figured out what was wrong, and I'm amazed nobody else has had this problem. (Mabe nobody else is still using InDesign 2?)

The issue was was the NumLock key. On my Windows PC laptop, if the NumLock is "on" you cannot do a forced line break (soft return). Turning tNumLock "off" got everything working again fine.

Why this is, I have no clue!

Scott

 

[Eggles]

Scott

I'm glad you stumbled on the solution to your problem, and it's amazing that such a thing could have such an unexpected effect. I was thinking after reading your first post that somehow you had some sort of weird para spacing applied, but that shouldn't have had the same effect after a forced line break. Very odd.