How do I get the invisible space between words in Word

Since you clearly have nonprinting characters displayed, the invisible space is not an ordinary nonbreaking space, but a nonbreaking space will keep words together at a line break, so it would suit your purpose. Word's Symbol dialog offers two no-width breaks, but this is clearly not one of those.

You might explore the Symbol dialog for other sorts of spaces, but I'm not sure what point there would be to that if all you want is a nonbreaking space. If you're just curious about what the character is, select it and press Alt+X. That will give you the Unicode number of the character.

Have you tried selecting one and pressing Alt+X?

Yes, this is it. I want to be able to easily produce

an actual space character that will not show up as either a dot or a degree symbol when displaying non-printing formatting marks.

I work in SharePoint documents, and for some reason, the control + shift + space bar does not work in those documents. But I have seen this other, invisible, non-breaking space before, and it works fine in SharePoint. But now I have to copy and paste it from another document. I am looking for an easier method – also out of sheer curiosity.

These spaces are made using this invisible space.

Hi Eivind, Sorry. Try Control+ shift + space bar

Hi Ron,

That gives a non-breaking space, which shows up as the degree symbol when non-printing formatting marks are displayed.

Eivind wants something that is an actual space character that will not show up as either a dot or a degree symbol when displaying non-printing formatting marks. I have no idea why. I suspect that any such character, if available, is not going to register as a space for the proofing tools, either. If that is true, you could get the same effect by using the "i" character and formatting it as white.

Sure, I realize that, but this answer was not really helpful …