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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / May 2006Zero Width Space
I've heard there is such a creature -- lets you use a slash, but lets the work break at the right margin. So typing "petitioner/respondent" can do a line break thusly: * * * petitioner/ respondent * * * In Word 2000, how do I get a zero-width space? <*((((><{ Fishy@Ocean.Net See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I've heard there is such a creature -- lets you use a slash, but lets > the work break at the right margin. So typing "petitioner/respondent" [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > <*((((><{ > Fishy@Ocean.Net Unfortunately, in Word 2000 you can do that only if you're writing in an Asian language. You can insert a "no-width optional break" from the Insert > Symbol > Special Characters dialog, but it doesn't work in English. You need at least Word 2002 to get this functioning correctly. See http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/T1277_Line_Breaks_After_a_Slash.html for details. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >I've heard there is such a creature -- lets you use a slash, but lets >the work break at the right margin. So typing "petitioner/respondent" [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] ><*((((><{ >Fishy@Ocean.Net >Unfortunately, in Word 2000 you can do that only if you're writing in >an Asian language. You can insert a "no-width optional break" from the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/T1277_Line_Breaks_After_a_Slash.html >for details. Of course, I should have checked http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm before I blurted out the wrong answer... -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Yes, the "zero-width space" U+200B should work fine in Word2000 and above, AFAIK, if you find a way to insert it (... the article lists a few). One problem is that the "no-width optional break" from "Insert > Symbols > Special characters" inserts something else, the "zero-width non-joiner" U+200C. Not sure what that is for -- It seems made to disable ligatures that a program would normally do at that point, but since Word doesn't do [automatic] ligatures, at least in Latin scripts, I'm baffled what it is good for. Or why it's listed in "Special characters", or why Microsoft uses other confusing names instead of those from the Unicode Standard... Klaus >>Unfortunately, in Word 2000 you can do that only if you're writing in >>an Asian language. You can insert a "no-width optional break" from the [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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