I have discovered quite recently that there is also an opposite special character, called 'no-width optional break' or 'zero-width space'. In HTML you can specify a non-breaking space as. It looks like a small circle or a degree sign. You can actually see this 'invisible' character when you press Ctrl+*. This character looks like space, but it doesn't cause line break. You can insert it in Word by clicking: Insert > Symbol > More Symbols > Special Characters > Nonbreaking space. For example, in Europe we use space as thousand separator (and comma as decimal mark) when writing down numbers.Ī special character called 'nonbreaking space' is very helpful in such cases. A text looks so much better when inserted to Word:īut there are places where we may not want a line break to be possible despite we insert a space. Wrapping text on word boundaries instead of single character boundaries is a great invention. I keep it for reference, but it probably doesn't reflect my current knowledge and beliefs. Warning! Some information on this page is older than 6 years now.

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