I am preparing procedure manuals which refer to filenames in very long paths.
Each path has several backslashes in it and this can cause a lot of the path
to appear on a new line, with lots of white space at the end of the previous
line. Because the paths are hyperlinks, I do not want to insert spaces to
make the lines break more logically because the links would not work.

Can anyone tell me how/whether I can create a soft backslash (similar to the
soft/hard hyphen principle), please? I know this is possible in WordPerfect,
but cannot find any help in Word. I am using Word 2003.

Thanks in advance.

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

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Tuph" wrote in message
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I am preparing procedure manuals which refer to filenames in very long
paths.
Each path has several backslashes in it and this can cause a lot of the
path
to appear on a new line, with lots of white space at the end of the
previous
line. Because the paths are hyperlinks, I do not want to insert spaces to
make the lines break more logically because the links would not work.

Can anyone tell me how/whether I can create a soft backslash (similar to
the
soft/hard hyphen principle), please? I know this is possible in
WordPerfect,
but cannot find any help in Word. I am using Word 2003.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks, Suzanne. That's just what I need.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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

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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.

"Tuph" wrote in message
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I am preparing procedure manuals which refer to filenames in very long
paths.
Each path has several backslashes in it and this can cause a lot of the
path
to appear on a new line, with lots of white space at the end of the
previous
line. Because the paths are hyperlinks, I do not want to insert spaces to
make the lines break more logically because the links would not work.

Can anyone tell me how/whether I can create a soft backslash (similar to
the
soft/hard hyphen principle), please? I know this is possible in
WordPerfect,
but cannot find any help in Word. I am using Word 2003.

Thanks in advance.