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Insert a nonbreaking minus sign?
Does anyone know how to insert a nonbreaking minus sign? Like if an author
says -7 to -3 days and you want to keep the minus always with the 7. -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com |
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Answer: Insert a nonbreaking minus sign?
Yes, you can easily insert a nonbreaking minus sign in Microsoft Word. Here's how:
That's it! You have now inserted a nonbreaking minus sign in your Microsoft Word document.
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Answer: Insert a nonbreaking minus sign?
Yes, you can insert a nonbreaking minus sign in Microsoft Word. Here's how:
That's it! Now you can use the nonbreaking minus sign to keep the minus sign and the number together on the same line.
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Insert a nonbreaking minus sign?
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"Angel Bivins" wrote: Does anyone know how to insert a nonbreaking minus sign? Like if an author says -7 to -3 days and you want to keep the minus always with the 7. -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com |
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Insert a nonbreaking minus sign?
Oh yeah! Duh. Thanks LS!
-- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com "LS" wrote: Control+Shift+- "Angel Bivins" wrote: Does anyone know how to insert a nonbreaking minus sign? Like if an author says -7 to -3 days and you want to keep the minus always with the 7. -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com |
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Insert a nonbreaking minus sign?
Actually, the true minus sign (which is wider than a hyphen, more like an em
dash, and the same width as the plus sign) is naturally nonbreaking; find it at 2212 in the Mathematical Operators character subset). -- 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. "Angel Bivins" wrote in message ... Oh yeah! Duh. Thanks LS! -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com "LS" wrote: Control+Shift+- "Angel Bivins" wrote: Does anyone know how to insert a nonbreaking minus sign? Like if an author says -7 to -3 days and you want to keep the minus always with the 7. -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com |
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Insert a nonbreaking minus sign?
Yup! That worked properly. I typed 2212 in my document and then hit ALT+x
and it converted the 2212 to a true minus sign. Thanks Suzanne. -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Actually, the true minus sign (which is wider than a hyphen, more like an em dash, and the same width as the plus sign) is naturally nonbreaking; find it at 2212 in the Mathematical Operators character subset). -- 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. "Angel Bivins" wrote in message ... Oh yeah! Duh. Thanks LS! -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com "LS" wrote: Control+Shift+- "Angel Bivins" wrote: Does anyone know how to insert a nonbreaking minus sign? Like if an author says -7 to -3 days and you want to keep the minus always with the 7. -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com |
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Insert a nonbreaking minus sign?
I saved it as autotext using the minus key (-). Hit F3 and it inserts the
non-breaking symbol "Angel Bivins" wrote in message ... Yup! That worked properly. I typed 2212 in my document and then hit ALT+x and it converted the 2212 to a true minus sign. Thanks Suzanne. -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Actually, the true minus sign (which is wider than a hyphen, more like an em dash, and the same width as the plus sign) is naturally nonbreaking; find it at 2212 in the Mathematical Operators character subset). -- 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. "Angel Bivins" wrote in message ... Oh yeah! Duh. Thanks LS! -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com "LS" wrote: Control+Shift+- "Angel Bivins" wrote: Does anyone know how to insert a nonbreaking minus sign? Like if an author says -7 to -3 days and you want to keep the minus always with the 7. -- Angel Bivins WordAngel Document Design www.wordangel.com |
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