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technical writing & justifying sentences
Dear all,
I am having a difficulty with scientific units when writing some technical reports. The problem is that sometimes a unit such as (mg mm-3 or mg L-1) with -3 and -1 as superscripts is being splitted at the end of a sentence leaving half of the unit (e.g. mg) at the end of the sentence and the other half at the begining of the following line (e.g. L-1) which looks very ugly. Sometimes you can change the word ordering to avoid this but it does not works like that all the time. Any suggestions? Many Thanks, Imad |
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Instead of a space between the units, use a nonbreaking space
(Ctrl+Shift+spacebar). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Imad wrote: Dear all, I am having a difficulty with scientific units when writing some technical reports. The problem is that sometimes a unit such as (mg mm-3 or mg L-1) with -3 and -1 as superscripts is being splitted at the end of a sentence leaving half of the unit (e.g. mg) at the end of the sentence and the other half at the begining of the following line (e.g. L-1) which looks very ugly. Sometimes you can change the word ordering to avoid this but it does not works like that all the time. Any suggestions? Many Thanks, Imad |
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Note that you can also insert a nonbreaking hyphen, as needed, using
Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Instead of a space between the units, use a nonbreaking space (Ctrl+Shift+spacebar). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Imad wrote: Dear all, I am having a difficulty with scientific units when writing some technical reports. The problem is that sometimes a unit such as (mg mm-3 or mg L-1) with -3 and -1 as superscripts is being splitted at the end of a sentence leaving half of the unit (e.g. mg) at the end of the sentence and the other half at the begining of the following line (e.g. L-1) which looks very ugly. Sometimes you can change the word ordering to avoid this but it does not works like that all the time. Any suggestions? Many Thanks, Imad |
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