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This is probably a simple problem, but I have an small textbox like this:
The exact text I have is:
asdfjkasdfasdf asdfadsfasdfasdfasdfasdfa
Illustrator is inserting a line break instead of keeping the space, this is great but in my case I want:
I've looked for a while but I can't find a simple setting for this. If this isn't clear, I'll be happy to clarify.
To answer your question what you're looking for doesn't exist in Illustrator. The only, really hacky, way to do what you're after would be to use an n-dash (or any other available symbol really) with no fill and no stroke.
If your text is long it might save you some time doing a Find and Replace in a text editor / desktop publishing program to make the spaces into n-dashes before pasting it in.
All the alignment options seem to be creating that line break, except for the Justify alignments which also leave lots of gaps between the characters. But if its okay with you, tweaking the text by leaving a space btween the d and f(in the place of the *) asdfjkasdfasdf asd*fadsfasdfasdfasdfasdfa. This pushed the characters following that space to the next line and produce your desired effect.
Select the "fa" and then from character menu use "no break". Illustrator help mention "non-breaking space" but only how to see them not how to put them.
