The idea is to mark places where you explicitly don't want a line break: for
example, Word thinks it's OK to insert a line break immediately after an
en-dash. You mightn't want this if the en-dash is in the middle of a phone
number. So the idea is to insert a no-width, non-break after the dash.

The reason you've never seen it is probably related to the fact that it
doesn't work. Not that I've seen, anyway.






"mikeg3" wrote in message
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What does a no-width non break symbol do in Word 2003?
This is in a list box under Insert-Symbol-Special characters.
I was trying to control which special characters create two words in the
middle of a character string and I came across this odd symbol, which is
not
in any doc I could find.
Thanks.