[mso] Re: Non-breaking spaces
- From: "Dian Chapman" <dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:04:40 -0600
OK...the main reason is to keep works together you don't want to break
goofy, like a name. If I was writing Dian D. Chapman, I would put a hard
space (non breaking) between Dian and D. This way if my name gets broken
to a second line in a paragraph...it will be like this...
Dian D.
Chapman
And not like this...
Dian
D. Chapman
The second one being a big typographical/design no-no and the sure sign
of an amateur!
Another cool thing is that it allow you to quickly align stuff across a
page. Say you're writing a resume and want it to say
My Company Chicago, IL
With the company info on the left and city info on the right.
You can do this many ways, a borderless table, right alignment tabs...or
my quickie favorite...
Type My Company with a hard space between My and Company. Then a regular
space between Company and Chicago. Then a hard space between Chicago and
IL.
Now, if you use a soft break to continue the line by hitting Ctrl/Enter
after IL, you can go back up and hit Ctrl/J to justify the above line.
This will cause Word to think the line above is still part of the
continuing paragraph...versus the end if you hit a hard return...and
it'll hold the hard space words together...but stretch the regular space
across the page to align everything fully justified.
To see it work, do this...
* hit Ctrl/J to justify a line
* type My
* type hard space (ctrl/shift/space)
* type Company
* type soft (regular) space
* type Chicago
* hit Ctrl/Enter...you will now see that the Word Chicago shoots to the
end of the line!
As a former designer in Word, I would have gone NUTS if I didn't have my
hard space and soft return to pull off tricks (which I still use all the
time and even teach in my classes...so consider this free lesson a
holiday gift!<g>)
Dian Chapman
Technical Consultant, Instructor,
Microsoft MVP & TechTrax Editor
Word AutoForm/VBA eBook: http://www.mousetrax.com/books.html
Tutorial web site: http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jan Beasley
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:49 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Non-breaking spaces
At 03:02 PM 12/4/2002, you wrote:
>Like I said, Jan....if you go look at the link I sent you to see the
>character marks, you will see that the little degree symbol is a
>non-breaking space.
Ok, first, sorry I didn't read that first - sometimes I don't
"listen" so well.
Now I know what it's called, but I want to know why. There may be
no useful purpose in knowing, but what is the difference between a
non-breaking space and the space you get when you hit the space bar
and the symbol shows up as a tiny solid dot between the words?
Thanks again,
Jan
Jan Beasley ~ Virtual Assistant
Virtual Foundations
mailto:jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.virtualfoundations.biz
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