Sometimes you might want the force the browser to not break the line between certain words or web page elements. To insert a non-breaking space you would use: Uses for the Non-Breaking Space Prevent Line Break with Non-Breaking Space. I use these to avoid ending a line with a number that is followed by a unit or a word (such as "35 kg" or "20 million"). As mentioned above, non-breaking space is an character entity. Not all fonts support special symbols such as non-breaking hyphens, so if you change your font, or cut and paste the text into another application, the non-breaking hyphen could be replaced by a square box or a funny symbol.Īnother useful tool is the non-breaking space. You can also use a non-breaking En Dash (Alt-8211), non-breaking Em Dash (Alt-8212), non-breaking Horizontal Bar (Alt-8213) as required. The purpose of a soft hyphen is to indicate where to hyphenate a word when a line break is necessary. A soft hyphen is the opposite of a non-breaking hyphen, which means that it is only visible when a line break is required. (It does not work if you enter 8208 on the number row above the letters.)īe careful not to confuse the non-breaking hyphen (Alt-8208) with the soft hyphen (Alt-0173). To insert a non-breaking hyphen in PowerPoint, simply press and hold Alt while you type 8208 on the number-pad.
You can use Ctrl-Shift-Hyphen in Word to insert a non-breaking hyphen, but this shortcut does not work in PowerPoint.
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