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

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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"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

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

"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

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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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"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

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

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
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"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

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
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the =
newsgroup so
all may benefit.
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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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