Since I didn't receive any answer to my problem about auto-resizing objects (posted July 6), I try with another question. So when you are typing in French in Word, Word doesn’t just replace the straight quotation mark with an opening « or a closing » and the non-breaking space that comes with it, but it also automatically adds the non-breaking space before the colon and, in the case of standard French, before the question mark, the exclamation mark, and the.Hi everyone. Quite often I have to read texts, papers and theses of students in order to review them and make corrections and suggestions. To keep two words or a hyphenated word together on one line, you can use a nonbreaking space or nonbreaking hyphen instead of a regular space or hyphen. In many such cases I face the problem of texts with unequal word spacing and huge white-space areas that really looks bad. When you need to insert a non-breaking space, simply use the Ctrl+Shift+Space hotkey combination to shift the word to the next line if it comes at the end of the line. Click where you want to insert the nonbreaking space. Unlike simple space that moves the single character to the next line, it can move the entire word to the next line, even if you place insert cursor inside the word and then insert the hard space. See the following image for an example (text taken from ).

In 99% of these cases, this happens with text been copied and pasted from web resources such as the Wikipedia. If one is a typical Microsoft Word user, which in most cases means he/she is using the default Word settings, the user cannot make out why some words are so close to each other and why some lines present that huge amount of whitespace.

A more “advanced” user that might have activated “Show paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols” either from the Settings or by using the Paragraph mark on the main toolbar will be able to see that in these texts there are some superscript circles between words that, somehow, glue these words together and results in that unpleasant look of the text. Hit Ctrl-F, which will open the Search bar at the left of the text, and select the down-arrow next to the little magnifying glass.In the Microsoft Word’s vocabulary there circles are called “non-breaking spaces” (or Nonbreaking Spaces) and, fortunately, it is easy to use find/replace to get rid of them all at once! In the Microsoft Word’s vocabulary there circles are called non-breaking spaces (or Nonbreaking Spaces) and, fortunately, it is easy to use find/replace to get rid of them all at once The solution is as follows: Hit Ctrl-F, which will open the Search bar at the left of the text, and select the down-arrow next to the little magnifying. The direct UTF-8 encoding for a non-breaking space (without using the entity) is C2 80. Find the “Advanced Find…” option and select it. Â is Unicode character U+00C2, Latin capital letter A with circumflex. So somehow the C2 value is being interpreted as a lone A with circumflex character rather than part of a two-byte sequence for non-breaking space.

Non breaking space word hotkey