What's this box showing in my "invisibles"?

Good morning,

What’s this box showing in my invisibles? I can’t delete it. And when I back space from the paragraph below it, that text gets added to the box. It is messing up my between paragraph spacing and I don’t know where it came from or how to get rid of it. I’ve tried copying other paragraph format and pasting over it but it just doesn’t go way. ??

Thanks!

Lausanne

Right-click within the box, and from the Table section of the contextual menu, select “Remove Table”. Unless you really want to have a single-cell table here, of course. :slight_smile:

Given that @lausanne says above, is it really a table? Tables don’e automatically insert text from text below, AFAIK. Or am I mis-understanding? That being said, I can’t find a way to make such a box. Thinking that restarting Scrivener/OS might helpe? Or exporting the text to an external file, then copy/paste back in.

@lausanne Does the box appear/disappear when toggling the “invisibles”?

That’s exactly what happens (on a Mac, which we can infer from various tell-tales in the screenshot, even without the circular assumption that it is a table because the Mac outlines invisible tables and Windows doesn’t):

  1. Paste in some lorem ipsum paragraphs.
  2. Insert a table between two of them.
  3. Set the table to 1 row and 1 column, and reduce the border width to 0px.
  4. Turn on invisibles, note the border drawn in the invisibles foreground colour.
  5. Type in a line directly after the table and position the cursor at the beginning of the line.
  6. Press backspace.

The line gets folded into the previous line within the table.

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Fantastic! It worked. Now I know a new thing. Thanks!

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Thanks for this. Being the curious sort, I tried all six steps on a Mac. At step 2 inserting a table inside an existing paragraph, not as a new paragraph, did the trick.

As I always have “invisibles” on, I’ve never made this error and when trying to re-create the issue, it didn’t occur to me to create a table not in its own paragraph. I can see how if accidentally done, especially when “invisible” with 0px causes confusion.

Learning for starting the new week! Thanks.

In my experience, these sorts of invisible tables do not come about through intentional action, but rather copy and paste from some source that used a table for some purpose (typically poor practice, as a substitute for better layout design).