Keep Hypenated Text on same line

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Libby

I know, dumb question, but I have searched all formatting text strings I can
think of and cannot get the instruction for this feature. I know it as a
"hard space" and a
"hard hypen". i.e., Mr. Smith kept on the same line in the paragraph (versus
Mr. on one line and Smith wrapped to the next line) or i.e., a phone number,
keeping the area code and number on the same line when separated by the
hypen. I've tried every option under the Paragraph, Line & Page Breaks -
Pagination options but to no avail. Again, I feel like an idiot, but believe
there must be a command for this.
Thank you,
Libby
 
I know, dumb question, but I have searched all formatting text strings I can
think of and cannot get the instruction for this feature. I know it as a
"hard space" and a
"hard hypen". i.e., Mr. Smith kept on the same line in the paragraph (versus
Mr. on one line and Smith wrapped to the next line) or i.e., a phone number,
keeping the area code and number on the same line when separated by the
hypen. I've tried every option under the Paragraph, Line & Page Breaks -
Pagination options but to no avail. Again, I feel like an idiot, but believe
there must be a command for this.
Thank you,
Libby
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You're not an idiot; it's just that Word's help indexing won't find anything
unless you know exactly the right term to search for, and maybe not even then.

The terms Word uses are "nonbreaking space" and "nonbreaking hyphen". You insert
them with Ctrl+Shift+spacebar and Ctrl+Shift+hyphen, respectively.
Alternatively, go to Insert > Symbol (in Word 2007, Insert > Symbol > More
Symbols) and click the Special Characters tab.
 
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