Reply To: Strange space in Table cells

Thank you, Chris. Sorry about the delay in replying but I was working on something else.
Indeed, when I look in the Story Editor, the offending character shows up as a rectangle with diagonal lines forming an X cross. It is even shows some at the end of paragraphs which, because of where they are, I had not picked up in the normal view. However, when I copy that character, paste from the Story Editor into the Find/Change dialog box and click “Change All,” every text space in the entire document disappears. Thank goodness for Command-Z!
I have realised that the Word files are the results of OCR scans and I suspect the offending character may be an artefact of the scanning process. Even the best OCR software makes weird choices at times. Although InDesign doesn’t recognise it as a normal text space (and so give it a little blue dot) it does recognise it as a text space when it is placed in the Find/Change dialog box. Frustration!
But at least it is easier for me to pick them up visually in the Story Editor, even though it looks as though I still need to remove them one at a time. Heavy sigh!