What is a non breaking hyphen?
Nonbreaking hyphens prevent hyphenated words, numbers, or phrases from breaking if they fall at the end of a line of text. For example, you can prevent 555-0123 from breaking; instead, the entire item will move to the beginning of the next line. Click where you want to insert a nonbreaking hyphen.
How do I get rid of a non-breaking hyphen?
The answer to this dilemma is to use non-breaking hyphens instead of regular dashes when you don’t want Word to break a line at the hyphen. To do this, hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys as you type the dash (this is the same as typing Ctrl and an underscore). Word will then not break the line at that point.
Is there a way to automatically break hyphens?
The browser is free to automatically break words at appropriate hyphenation points, following whatever rules it chooses. However, suggested line break opportunities (see Suggesting line break opportunities below) will override automatic break point selection when present.
When to change hyphens to dashes in AutoFormat?
The AutoFormat rule assumes that spaces are used either before or on both sides of dashes, and that text appears after or on both sides of hyphens. Therefore, if a space appears before a hyphen, Word replaces the hyphen with an en dash. If text appears before a hyphen, Word makes no change.
When do you hyphenate a word in CSS?
The hyphens CSS property specifies how words should be hyphenated when text wraps across multiple lines. It can prevent hyphenation entirely, hyphenate at manually-specified points within the text, or let the browser automatically insert hyphens where appropriate. The source for this interactive example is stored in a GitHub repository.
When to put a hyphen at the end of a line?
In word division (hyphenation), a partial word at the end of a line is followed by a hyphen, and is completed on the next line.