Non breaking spaces in MS Word

Perhaps you've heard of non breaking spaces, perhaps not, but you certainly should know how to use them.

On occasion you may want to override the way MS Word wraps text at the end of a line.  For example, you may want a person's name and surname to always appear on the same line or perhaps the date and year are separating and you'd prefer they didn't.

Looking at this example the name (which I've highlighted to make it easier to spot) has wrapped onto two lines.

In order to force MS Word to keep the name and surname together, I've replaced a normal space between the name and surname with a non breaking space.  Easily done.  Simple replace the existing space with CTRL SHIFT SPACEBAR

Whilst this is not something you're likely to use on a very frequent basis, it's a great little trick to know.