Okay, so I'm sure many of you know how frustrating it is when you type in a word that has a hyphen in it and Microsoft Word automatically splits it onto two lines. (Words such as e‑mail, t‑shirt – or the main reason I found this solution was for the word 4‑H).
So what can you do?
I suppose you could go in and use the Enter key to force Word to put everything together, but that's a nightmare for later editing.
So, instead of the usual hyphen, try Ctrl + Shift + Hyphen. With that, you'll find that the hyphenated word is treated as a single word and not split onto two different lines.
Voila. An easy way to control exactly what's going where in your documents!
Two other tricks:
- The Incredible non-breaking space: Ctrl + Shift + Spacebar (This is a very handy trick for dates in your documents! (For example, keeping May 19, 2012 all on the same line.)
- Use Shift-Enter for a new line but not a new paragraph
(I use this quite often when formatting documents – actually I used it just now so that I could move down one line without creating a new bullet! I also use it when I don’t want the extra space you get before a new paragraph when I want to start a new line.)
Try them out!
These tricks work in many other programs besides Word and can be a great time-saver when writing and formatting documents.
Source: http://www.worldstart.com/the-incredible-non-breaking-hyphen/