Jeffery Small wrote:
The on-line help for Writer says that you enter a non-breaking hyphen by holding down Shift-Ctrl and pressing the minus sign. However, on most keyboards, the shifted minus key is the underscore and I get a non-breaking underscore when I try this. I tried a simple Ctrl + the minus key but this does not work.
The Shift-Ctrl-hyphen key should work on any system, using either the hyphen in the main keyboard array or the hyphen on the numeric keypad. I use this quite a bit under Windows XP SP2. Are you pressing the shift key, the control key, and the hyphen key, all three at the same time?
Pressing Ctrl and the hyphen key simultaneously should give you instead an optional hyphen which will normally appear as a non-spacing hyphen with a gray background on the screen display but will not appear on printouts, unless the a line break could fall at that position, in which case the line break occurs and the character prints as a normal hyphen at the end of the line.
You can also obtain both these characters by the menu system though Insert -> Formatting mark and through the corresponding menu shortcut keys.
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