The Help file in my copy of MS-Word says CTRL-Shift-Space.  A Microsoft article 
gives this for Word 1997 through 2003.
 
In a browser, it appears to be necessary to use CharacterMap, or use ALT-0160, 
or in an html compatible context,  

--- On Sat, 3/21/09, James R. Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:

From: James R. Frysinger <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:44046] Nonbreaking space on OpenOffice 3.x
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 6:48 PM

Heads up, Windows and OpenOffice users!

In OpenOffice 2.x or earlier, CTRL-Space inserted a nonbreaking space in texts
(cannot be used in the spreadsheet program, Calc). In OpenOffice 3.x that
shortcut was changed to CTRL-Shift-Space but the documentation for 3.x still
shows the original command.

I've just spent 2 h of playing with my keyboard language selection and
searching the web for this information. Hopefully I can save you some time by
posting this information here since the nonbreaking space is a character
appropriate to the SI.

As far as I know, M$ Office (on Windows) still uses CTRL-Space and Macs use
Command-Space to do the same thing in their various programs.

Jim

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