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Inserting a non-breaking hyphen

How can one insert a non-breaking hyphen into a Pages document?

2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 17, 2007 3:27 PM

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Posted on Aug 21, 2007 9:58 AM

You can insert a non-breaking hyphen from the Character Palette. It's in General Punctuation, with a unicode value of 2011.

There's no keyboard equivalent for it, but you could set up an auto-correct entry that inserts it. E.g., auto correct "+-" with "‑". Because of how auto-correct works, you have to type a space in order for it to kick in, then delete the space. Thus you'd type +-<space><delete>. Kind of ugly, but still probably easier than bringing up the character palette each time.

Alternatively, if you keep the character palette up a lot of the time, you can add the non-breaking hyphen to the Favorites section to more quickly find it each time.
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Aug 21, 2007 9:58 AM in response to Walt K

You can insert a non-breaking hyphen from the Character Palette. It's in General Punctuation, with a unicode value of 2011.

There's no keyboard equivalent for it, but you could set up an auto-correct entry that inserts it. E.g., auto correct "+-" with "‑". Because of how auto-correct works, you have to type a space in order for it to kick in, then delete the space. Thus you'd type +-<space><delete>. Kind of ugly, but still probably easier than bringing up the character palette each time.

Alternatively, if you keep the character palette up a lot of the time, you can add the non-breaking hyphen to the Favorites section to more quickly find it each time.

Inserting a non-breaking hyphen

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