

To do this, you need to insert a non-breaking space between the words “unduly” and “burdensome.” Just delete the existing regular space between the words and insert a non-breaking space by using CTRL-SHIFT-SPACE. What if you wanted to keep the words “unduly burdensome” on the same line, but the line broke naturally after “unduly”? The new “soft” hyphen will look the same as the old one, but it’ll never allow a line break in the middle ever again. To put one of those babies in, just delete the hyphen you already have and, with your cursor still in place between the words you want hyphenated, press CTRL-SHIFT-HYPHEN (yes, that’s all at the same time, so you’ll need a little coordination to pull this off). To prevent that from happening, you need a different kind of hyphen than the standard one you see on the keyboard right next to the number zero. In some instances (and for some people), this really isn’t a problem. The problem with putting a hyphenated word at the end of a line is that the line could break right at the hyphen character. These days? Not so much.īut you can still stop awkward breaks - hyphenated words or other groups of words that need to appear together on a single line - with a quick three-key combination.

But at least then you had total control over where the line break was. Yes, it was a pain in the neck compared to typing on a word processor.

Please.) Every time you heard that little ding when you approached the right-hand margin, you knew you needed to reach up, hit that bar over on the left side, and return the platen to the left margin to start a new line. Remember typewriters? (Those of you too young to remember those, just skip this part.
