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From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil)
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Subject: Re: keeping words 'together' on Word 4.0
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Date: 19 Oct 90 20:32:53 GMT
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scavo@cs.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) writes:

>Here's a summary of the possibilities then:

>   regular (hard) hyphen           -
>   optional (soft) hyphen          <command>-<->
>   nonbreaking hyphen              <option>-<~>
>   en-dash                         <option>-<->
>   em-dash                         <shift>-<option>-<->
>   minus sign                      <command>-<shift>-<Q> <->

>Hey, I didn't know you could use a nonbreaking hyphen in conjunction
>with the Symbol font?

Yup, it works just fine to give you a non-breaking minus sign.
A slight correction to your list above though (don't mean to nit-
pick, but maybe people are rushing out to go try it at home ;-)),
the key in question (that yields the non-breaking hyphen in MS Word,
and only in Word, I think) is command-tilde, not option-tilde.
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Dana E. Keil                Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley                      dana@are.berkeley.edu