Non-breaking space

[Mary Fisher]

What is this, please?

Mary

 

[Jay Freedman]

What is this, please?

Mary

It's a character that displays as a space, but doesn't allow Word to insert
an automatic line break there if it comes near the end of the line. For
example, if you want to prevent a person's first and last names from
appearing on separate lines, you can insert a nonbreaking space
(Ctrl+Shift+spacebar) instead of a regular space.

You can tell the difference between a regular space and a nonbreaking space
by displaying nonprinting characters (click the ¶ button on the toolbar). A
regular space is shown as a small dot, while a nonbreaking space is shown as
a small circle.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for more
about nonprinting character display.

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Jay Freedman
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[Mary Fisher]

It's a character that displays as a space, but doesn't allow Word to
insert an automatic line break there if it comes near the end of the line.
For example, if you want to prevent a person's first and last names from
appearing on separate lines, you can insert a nonbreaking space
(Ctrl+Shift+spacebar) instead of a regular space.

Thank you for that.

You can tell the difference between a regular space and a nonbreaking
space by displaying nonprinting characters (click the ¶ button on the
toolbar). A regular space is shown as a small dot, while a nonbreaking
space is shown as a small circle.

Yes, I did that and saw the symbols but couldn't understand the function
Now that I understand it could be useful.

Mary