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Conditional Slash Similar to Conditional Hyphen?
Is there any way to create a "conditional slash" that operates in a similar
way to a conditional hyphen? For example, if I were to say: "Check for relevant provisions/requirements", is there a way to make this wrap conditionally after the slash if the phrase happens to come at the end of a line? Thanks Oliver |
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Not as such, but you can insert a No-Width Optional Break after the slash
using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters or 200C, Alt+X. -- 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. "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... Is there any way to create a "conditional slash" that operates in a similar way to a conditional hyphen? For example, if I were to say: "Check for relevant provisions/requirements", is there a way to make this wrap conditionally after the slash if the phrase happens to come at the end of a line? Thanks Oliver |
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Hi Oliver-
It appears to me that slashes work that way by default, as long as you do not preceed/follow them with a space. If using spaces, they would have to be typed as non-breaking (conditional) in order to preserve the continuity of the string. HTH |:) "Oliver St Quintin" wrote: Is there any way to create a "conditional slash" that operates in a similar way to a conditional hyphen? For example, if I were to say: "Check for relevant provisions/requirements", is there a way to make this wrap conditionally after the slash if the phrase happens to come at the end of a line? Thanks Oliver |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Not as such, but you can insert a No-Width Optional Break after the = slash using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters or 200C, Alt+X. Close: 200B Regards, Klaus |
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That's interesting. Since I can never remember the right number, I inserted
a No-Width Optional Break using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters and then used Alt+X to get the number, and it showed 200C, which is labeled ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER. Although it displays as a pipe in the Symbol dialog, it is displayed as the nested rectangle in the document. Moreover, "(normal text)" (TNR in this instance) doesn't contain the glyph 200B. -- 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. "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Not as such, but you can insert a No-Width Optional Break after the slash using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters or 200C, Alt+X. Close: 200B Regards, Klaus |
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The "zero width non-joiner" does exactly what I wanted. How could one ever
think to look this up in the help index? Thanks everyone for your comments and good work. Oliver "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's interesting. Since I can never remember the right number, I inserted a No-Width Optional Break using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters and then used Alt+X to get the number, and it showed 200C, which is labeled ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER. Although it displays as a pipe in the Symbol dialog, it is displayed as the nested rectangle in the document. Moreover, "(normal text)" (TNR in this instance) doesn't contain the glyph 200B. -- 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. "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Not as such, but you can insert a No-Width Optional Break after the slash using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters or 200C, Alt+X. Close: 200B Regards, Klaus |
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I have no idea how you'd find it in Help (in fact, I don't think it *is* in
Help. Klaus has an article about it at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm, but again I'm not sure what search terms would turn this up. -- 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. "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... The "zero width non-joiner" does exactly what I wanted. How could one ever think to look this up in the help index? Thanks everyone for your comments and good work. Oliver "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's interesting. Since I can never remember the right number, I inserted a No-Width Optional Break using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters and then used Alt+X to get the number, and it showed 200C, which is labeled ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER. Although it displays as a pipe in the Symbol dialog, it is displayed as the nested rectangle in the document. Moreover, "(normal text)" (TNR in this instance) doesn't contain the glyph 200B. -- 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. "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Not as such, but you can insert a No-Width Optional Break after the slash using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters or 200C, Alt+X. Close: 200B Regards, Klaus |
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Hi Oliver, Suzanne,
Microsoft really made a mess of this. The characters from "Insert = Symbol Special characters" are named differently in the different = versions, but they never got them right. And in Word2003, they managed = to mess up the proper formatting characters in the text, too. I wouldn't use 200C, because it might stop working in case Microsoft = ever fixes this mess. "Insert Symbol" doesn't show 200B (and quite a few other non-printing = characters) for Times New Roman, but it (they) still work(s). The dialog does show 200C/200D probably because they are needed in = scripts that use ligatures, like Arabic (as far as I understood), to = prevent/create ligatures. Regards, Klaus "Oliver St Quintin" wrote: The "zero width non-joiner" does exactly what I wanted. How could one = ever=20 think to look this up in the help index? =20 Thanks everyone for your comments and good work. =20 Oliver =20 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: =20 That's interesting. Since I can never remember the right number, I = inserted a No-Width Optional Break using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters = and then used Alt+X to get the number, and it showed 200C, which is = labeled ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER. Although it displays as a pipe in the Symbol = dialog, it is displayed as the nested rectangle in the document. Moreover, = "(normal text)" (TNR in this instance) doesn't contain the glyph 200B. =20 --=20 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. =20 "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Not as such, but you can insert a No-Width Optional Break after = the slash using Insert | Symbol | Special Characters or 200C, Alt+X. =20 Close: 200B =20 Regards, Klaus =20 |