Word displays the Insert Symbol dialog box. You can also insert a non-breaking hyphen by following these steps: Choose Symbol from the Insert menu. Word will then not break the line at that point. A user who is not familiar with HTML might be extremely confused by why a message has tags in between each sentence or in the middle of different phrases. Looks like a good time to start a patitiion to get you a salary or something to keep you on :) From emile at Wed Mar 3 17:30:35 2010 From: emile at (Emile van Sebille) Date: Wed, 08:30:35 -0800 Subject: Tutor getting diagonals from a matrix In-Reply-To: > References: 4B8D9715.1070609. To do this, hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys as you type the dash (this is the same as typing Ctrl and an underscore). Here, the additional non-breaking spaces will become tags. Some browsers or other technologies may render pages either completely or partially in HTML code, rather than in plain text. One common issue for non-technical users is that the non-breaking space tag might show up on Web pages, emails or other text elements that have not been set up correctly. In order to produce white space effectively, programmers use a non-breaking space. I am not the lead developer for Word, and I am not intimately familier with every bug that is entered against our products. Spaces that look correct in HTML coding might not look right when the page is rendered. In his response to my post about the bug with non-breaking spaces and Postscript (Type 1) fonts in Word 2004 yesterday, Microsoft developer Erik Schwiebert writes. Is there a reason this is posted in the vba forum rather than the general Word forum If not, I can move it there. Replace it with a space character and you should have accomplished what you want. Unlike Word processing environments, HTML environments do not allow developers to create white space by simply hitting the space bar. If you use a space in the find box, it should find the non-breaking space. Some of the limitations of HTML have to do with how the coding language treats white space on a page. On browsers, resizing the window will demonstrate the effect of non-breaking spaces on the texts below. Fascinated with building usable, delightful software. The word-joiner does not produce any space and prohibits a line break at its position.
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