technical writing & justifying sentences

[Guest]

Dear all,

I am having a difficulty with scientific units when writing some technical
reports. The problem is that sometimes a unit such as (mg mm-3 or mg L-1)
with -3 and -1 as superscripts is being splitted at the end of a sentence
leaving half of the unit (e.g. mg) at the end of the sentence and the other
half at the begining of the following line (e.g. L-1) which looks very ugly.
Sometimes you can change the word ordering to avoid this but it does not
works like that all the time. Any suggestions?

Many Thanks,
Imad

 

[Jay Freedman]

Instead of a space between the units, use a nonbreaking space
(Ctrl+Shift+spacebar).

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Note that you can also insert a nonbreaking hyphen, as needed, using
Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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