Can I force long hyperlinks to break when using justify?

[Guest]

Hi

I am writing a piece of justified text with hyperlinks inserted as
references (and yes, these must be fully visible within the text itself).
However, long hyperlinks are put on lines of their own, and justifying means
that if there are a few words on the line it was originally from, then these
get spaced out to ridiculous proportions.

So, is there any way to force long hyperlinks to break when using justify?

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can insert a No Width Optional Break at the appropriate point (*before*
a forward slash is the recommended point). See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm (note that the break
Word inserts from the Special Characters tab of Insert Symbol is 200C rather
than 200B as Klaus advises). Also note that (e-mail address removed) is no
longer valid.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Al,

Are you using the justify button in regular text
or the [x] Fit text feature from Table=>Properties=>Cell=>Options.
The latter one can do some really odd things.

Are you intentionally starting the hyperlinks as a new line
or paragraph?

Are you allowing Word to do automatic hyphenation
(Tools=>Language) so that it has more places it can break
up Words to minimize the 'space spread' when using justified text?

Are you working in a view other than Print Layout?

For the hyperlinks it can depend on what is visible for the hyperlink and
that does not have to be the same as where the link takes
you when used.

For example if I paste your question below into Word and select
two lines worth of text then use ctrl+K to create a hyperlink
then the display text will wrap normally as it has spaces and
is text even though the underlying link is a URL without spaces.

If, however, I'm using the URL as the display, and URLs generally
do not have spaces in them, then Word only has one 'word' to deal
with if the font you're using is a decorative (symbols that look
like letters) one. However, even a long URL such as this one

http://support.corel.com/scripts/ri...X5hbnl_JnBfc29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=

(may break in your newsreader into multiple paragraphs) wraps in
Word when placed inside a sentence (i.e. pasted between Words).

can have the display text for that hyperlink be
"Microsoft Word Document (DOC) Technical Notes"
the title of that web page.

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Hi

I am writing a piece of justified text with hyperlinks inserted as
references (and yes, these must be fully visible within the text itself).
However, long hyperlinks are put on lines of their own, and justifying means
that if there are a few words on the line it was originally from, then these
get spaced out to ridiculous proportions.

So, is there any way to force long hyperlinks to break when using justify?

Thanks.>>

 

[Guest]

Hi

Yep, ALT-8203 was just what I needed - many thanks. It would be nice
perhaps if future versions of Word checked for http: or www. in the display
text of a hyperlink and added these automatically ?!?

Thanks again.