TLC Tips of the Week:                          from Helen Olberg

This week’s tip applies to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Did you ever have the problem that MS Word breaks a phone number or social security number in the middle, placing part of a it on one line and the rest of it at the beginning of the  next line? … or MS Word puts part of an address on one line and the rest at the beginning of the next line?  You want it all to be together in the same line.

Here are examples:

The address you are typing in a sentence is 2608 Tomahawk Drive  --- Word places the ‘2608’ at the end of one line and ‘Tomahawk Drive’ on the next line.  (You’d like the address to be all on the same line.)

You are typing information about a student or faculty member - address and phone number. You’ve typed the area code and number, but find that the area code is on the end of one line and the rest of the phone number is at the beginning of the next line.

What Can You Do? 

1.      You can tell Word not to break apart the phone or address by using non-breaking spaces or non-breaking hyphens. Instead of the spacebar, hold the Ctrl and Shift keys as you press the spacebar or hyphen.

Non-breaking spacebar               Ctrl Shift spacebar

Non-breaking hyphen                  Ctrl Shift hyphen

2.      You may also force a new line within the same paragraph by using Shift Enter.

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