Non-breaking hyphen: + + Īs the name implies, non-breaking characters connects or “glues” the text together and it will all automatically move to the next line together but only as needed.To view non-breaking space and hyphen characters in a document, click Show/Hide in the Paragraph group (Home tab). When you don’t want a paragraph or even several lines of text to break between two pages, try the following Word tricks: Word represents non-breaking space characters with a degree symbol (°) and non-breaking hyphen characters with a double‑length hyphen (these are a bit harder to distinguish from regular text). Select the paragraph or section of text you want to keep together.

On the Home tab in Word, click the Paragraph group’s dialog launcher (the small arrow at the bottom-right of the group).Or, right-click on the selected text and then left-click on Paragraph. Check the Keep lines together option and click OK.If you have multiple paragraphs selected, for instance, a title with following text, also click on Keep with next which will keep the paragraphs together on the same page.To find non-breaking spaces and non-breaking hyphens in your text, use the Find feature as follows:

On the Home tab, click the Find icon in the Editing group on the right or press the keyboard shortcut + F.

In the Navigation Pane to the left, enter one of the following: ^s to find non-breaking space ^~ to find non-breaking hyphens.

Use the Navigation Pane to move through the results.

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