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WordPerfect has a "hyphenation soft return" which allows a conditional line
break in a word without a hyphen. This is useful, for example, when you have
a long URL in a sentence, and you don't want the entire URL moved to a new
line leaving a lot of white space on the previous line. In WordPerfect, you
can insert "hyphenation soft returns" after the slashes, so the program will
know to break the URL there if necessary, but without inserting a hyphen at
the break. Does Word have the equivalent? If not, it should.

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It does. Type Ctrl + -
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WordPerfect has a "hyphenation soft return" which allows a conditional

line
break in a word without a hyphen. This is useful, for example, when you

have
a long URL in a sentence, and you don't want the entire URL moved to a new
line leaving a lot of white space on the previous line. In WordPerfect,

you
can insert "hyphenation soft returns" after the slashes, so the program

will
know to break the URL there if necessary, but without inserting a hyphen

at
the break. Does Word have the equivalent? If not, it should.

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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm

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WordPerfect has a "hyphenation soft return" which allows a conditional

line
break in a word without a hyphen. This is useful, for example, when you

have
a long URL in a sentence, and you don't want the entire URL moved to a new
line leaving a lot of white space on the previous line. In WordPerfect,

you
can insert "hyphenation soft returns" after the slashes, so the program

will
know to break the URL there if necessary, but without inserting a hyphen

at
the break. Does Word have the equivalent? If not, it should.

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Ctrl - does a conditional break WITH a hyphen. I need a conditional break
WITHOUT a hypen.


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It does. Type Ctrl + -
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Thanks. This worked well.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm




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Thanks. This worked well.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm
Well ... just in case anyone else lands here with the same question, it is now possible to use Word's no-width optional break character to achieve this.

Ctrl+I, S (Insert Symbol)
Special Characters
No-width optional break

And of course, you can assign this to a keyboard shortcut of your choice.

Spotted this solution he https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/mi...tate-wrapping/
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