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 =
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think to look this up in the help index?
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Thanks everyone for your comments and good work.
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Oliver
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
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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.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Klaus Linke" wrote in message
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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.
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Close: 200B
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Regards,
Klaus
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