I'm having discussions with the writers to work out a change in process that would eliminate the non-breaking hyphen, as that appears to be the only solution. Rather than display a weird, unrelated character.or I dunno.just throwing in a regular hyphen.the document simply opens with the unsupported character omitted. I'm wondering if any of you have run into this particular issue and what your organizations have decided to do going forward? Did you simply stop using non-breaking hyphens altogether? Or is there another way of addressing this that I'm not seeing?ĮDIT: As I delve deeper and deeper and deeper into Google's search results eper into uservoice and technet.the pattern is that a non-breaking hyphen is simply unsupported in Word Online. Over on MS's uservoice, I see a few mentions of it, but really not too much. When the document saves (even auto saves) then they're gone forever. Trouble is, when the document is opened in Word Online, then any non-breaking hyphens, throughout the document are removed automatically. So we're making an effort to move much of our current document creation to SharePoint online. To work with the hyphenation options, we need to be in the Page Layout tab, and the Page Setup area, and there you.
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This is the case in Word 2007 and Word 2010. So if one of those words were to be at the end of a line, and an alteration were made that would normally cause the hyphenated word to split lines, the entire word drops to the next line regardless of the hyphen. If you click on the arrow to the left of the word Hyphenation, you get a menu that looks like this: In Word 2003, you need to select the following menus: Tools > Language > Hyphenation.
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When producing these documents some of the words they use include non-breaking hyphens. My users are in the medical writing field, so the documents they produce are very intentionally formatted.