How to keep words together in Word
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Show By default, Word automatically drops text to the next line when there’s a space or hyphen at the end of that line. But what if you want to keep those words containing the space or hyphen together on the same line? With a bit of tweaking to spacing or inserting a manual break, you can certainly make this happen. But there’s another way. We’ll show you how to use nonbreaking spaces and hyphens to keep words together in your Microsoft Word document. How to Insert a Nonbreaking SpaceThe nonbreaking space in Microsoft Word is considered a symbol, a special character. So you can simply replace the space between the words you want to keep together with a nonbreaking space. Place your cursor where you want to insert the nonbreaking space. If you already have a space, you can simply select it by dragging your cursor through it. If not, you can put the two words together with your cursor between them where you want the space. Go to the Insert tab and click the Symbol drop-down arrow. Select “More Symbols.” In the Symbol window that appears, click the Special Characters tab. Select “Nonbreaking Space” in the list, click “Insert,” and then “Close.” You should then see your text adjust. The words on either side of the nonbreaking space should be together on the same line. How to Insert a Nonbreaking HyphenThe nonbreaking hyphen in Word works the same way as the nonbreaking space. But obviously, you’ll use this character for keeping hyphenated words together. Place your cursor where you want to insert the nonbreaking hyphen. If you already have the hyphen, you can simply select it by dragging your cursor through it. If not, you can put the two words together with your cursor between them where you want the hyphen. Head to the Insert tab, click the Symbol drop-down arrow, and select “More Symbols.” In the Symbol window, click the Special Characters tab. Select “Nonbreaking Hyphen” in the list, click “Insert,” and then “Close.” You should then see your text adjust with the hyphenated word together on the same line. Similar to keeping words on the same line, you can keep the lines of a paragraph together and stop them from splitting between pages. In addition, you can eliminate widow and orphan lines in your Word documents too!
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on October 8, 2009, 7:29 AM PDT Word usually depends on space characters to determine when to wrap text to the next line. That can be a problem if you want particular words to remain together. When that happens, try entering a nonbreaking space. Unless you’ve enabled hyphenation, Word looks for a space character to determine when to wrap text to the next line. That won’t always be what you want, though. You’ll want to keep
some words and phrases together, regardless of where they fall in relation to the right margin. For example, suppose you want to keep a person’s first and last name together, but they happen to fall at the end of the line and Word pushes the last name to the next line. When this happens, you can keep the names together by joining them with a nonbreaking space. Just glue them together with a nonbreaking space, as follows: Enter
the first name as you normally would. Instead of entering a normal space character, press [Ctrl]+[Shift]+Spacebar. Enter the last name. Using a nonbreaking space, you can keep words together.
How do I stop words separating in Word?Turning off automatic hyphenation. Select the paragraph or paragraphs.. Click the Home tab in the Ribbon.. Click the dialog box launcher on the bottom right corner of the Paragraph group. The Paragraph dialog box appears.. Click Line and Page Breaks.. Select or check Don't Hyphenate.. Click OK.. How do I stop words splitting in a text box?Manual fix. To fix this problem manually, turn off hyphenation and delete the hyphens. Click the Text Box Tools Format tab, and then click Hyphenation. In the Hyphenation dialog box, clear the Automatically hyphenate this story check box.
How do I lock text in place in Word?In the section Arrange, click on the Wrap Text icon to open a drop-down menu. In the drop-down menu, click on Move with Text to remove the tick mark next to it. Note that now the tick mark appears against Fix Position on Page. Now, the text box remains locked on the page and will not move with the text.
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