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Can I force long hyperlinks to break when using justify?
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I am writing a piece of justified text with hyperlinks inserted as references (and yes, these must be fully visible within the text itself). However, long hyperlinks are put on lines of their own, and justifying means that if there are a few words on the line it was originally from, then these get spaced out to ridiculous proportions. So, is there any way to force long hyperlinks to break when using justify? Thanks. |
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Answer: Can I force long hyperlinks to break when using justify?
How to force long hyperlinks to break in Microsoft Word
1. Select the hyperlink that you want to break.
3. In the "Set Hyperlink ScreenTip" dialog box, add a space or a hyphen where you want the hyperlink to break. 4. Click "OK" to close the "Set Hyperlink ScreenTip" dialog box. 5. Click "OK" to close the "Edit Hyperlink" dialog box. By adding a space or a hyphen in the hyperlink's ScreenTip, you are telling Word to break the hyperlink at that point when it is justified. This will prevent the long hyperlink from taking up an entire line and causing the surrounding text to be spaced out too much. PHP Code:
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Hi Al,
Are you using the justify button in regular text or the [x] Fit text feature from Table=Properties=Cell=Options. The latter one can do some really odd things. Are you intentionally starting the hyperlinks as a new line or paragraph? Are you allowing Word to do automatic hyphenation (Tools=Language) so that it has more places it can break up Words to minimize the 'space spread' when using justified text? Are you working in a view other than Print Layout? For the hyperlinks it can depend on what is visible for the hyperlink and that does not have to be the same as where the link takes you when used. For example if I paste your question below into Word and select two lines worth of text then use ctrl+K to create a hyperlink then the display text will wrap normally as it has spaces and is text even though the underlying link is a URL without spaces. If, however, I'm using the URL as the display, and URLs generally do not have spaces in them, then Word only has one 'word' to deal with if the font you're using is a decorative (symbols that look like letters) one. However, even a long URL such as this one http://support.corel.com/scripts/rig...FnZT0 x&p_li= (may break in your newsreader into multiple paragraphs) wraps in Word when placed inside a sentence (i.e. pasted between Words). can have the display text for that hyperlink be "Microsoft Word Document (DOC) Technical Notes" the title of that web page. ========= "Al Bedo" Al wrote in message ... Hi I am writing a piece of justified text with hyperlinks inserted as references (and yes, these must be fully visible within the text itself). However, long hyperlinks are put on lines of their own, and justifying means that if there are a few words on the line it was originally from, then these get spaced out to ridiculous proportions. So, is there any way to force long hyperlinks to break when using justify? Thanks. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Hi
Yep, ALT-8203 was just what I needed - many thanks. It would be nice perhaps if future versions of Word checked for http: or www. in the display text of a hyperlink and added these automatically ?!? Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can insert a No Width Optional Break at the appropriate point (*before* a forward slash is the recommended point). See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm (note that the break Word inserts from the Special Characters tab of Insert Symbol is 200C rather than 200B as Klaus advises). Also note that is no longer valid. -- 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. "Al Bedo" Al wrote in message ... Hi I am writing a piece of justified text with hyperlinks inserted as references (and yes, these must be fully visible within the text itself). However, long hyperlinks are put on lines of their own, and justifying means that if there are a few words on the line it was originally from, then these get spaced out to ridiculous proportions. So, is there any way to force long hyperlinks to break when using justify? Thanks. |
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