Spaces may be slightly faster, but for me, they're extremely difficult to
noctice.

But if I put ="" in a cell, I can select the cell and see it in the formula
bar. Entering a space character adds some time when I want to find out what's
in that cell. (Pay me now, or pay me later???)

Max wrote:

If you put something in the next cell it will not fill over,
you could put ="" for instance

Hitting a space would be slightly faster, no? <g

But the OP did mention this ..

hit the space button to make the field
before it (with the sentence) think that its not empty,

But thought that this part of the original post
may not be quite correct, going by tests carried out here ..

but that only works while you have it open, even if you save,
the string comes back the next time you access the file.

The space(s) remained where they were hit or copied down
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