Non breakable spaces in Word
I prefer TeX and friends (LaTeX, MetaPost, BibTeX) when writing papers. But sometimes I have to use Microsoft Word. One annoyance I have observed in many documents written in Word is line breaks (word wrapping) in the wrong places. Not all spaces are the correct place to break lines in a text. In TeX, I would write the tilde (~
) character instead of a space, and in HTML, I would use the character entity
. This would create a space where a line break will not occur. However, this is also easily possible in Microsoft Word. Instead of inserting the space by typing on the Spacebar, press Ctrl-Shift-Spacebar, and a non-breakable space is inserted in your document.