On 2009/03/22, at 9:48 AM, James R. Frysinger wrote:
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
Dear Jim,
On my Macintosh I use Option-space to get a non-breaking space between
a number and a unit and between series of three zeros in a number such
as 1 000 000. This works fine in MS Word but not in my email program.
I don't use MS Excel very often so I can't tell you if Option-space
works there. Command-space does not work for non-breaking spaces in MS
Word.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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