Avoid text breaking onto two lines in Word?
 

Hello

When I type two words in the end of a line, then the two words may be apart to different lines in Word document as there is no enough space. One locates in the end of a line, another locates in the start of next line.

But for some special words, I don't want to break them into two lines. I hope they can always stay in the same line. How can I do this in Word 2010?

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For that, there many ways to do that.

Method 1: Use Non-breaking Space
Just select the space between the two words which you want to stick them together, press “Ctrl+ Shift+ Space bar”.

Method 2: Use “Replace” Feature
1. To start with, select all target words.
2. Then click “Replace” in “Editing” group under “Home” tab. Or press “Ctrl+ H” instead.
3. Ensure the “Replace” tab is on. Enter one space in “Find what” text box.
4. And input “^s” in “Replace with” text box.
5. Lastly, click “Replace All”.
6. Click “No” to stop performing replacement on the whole document.

Method 3: Run Macro
Sub ReplaceSpaceWithNonBreakingSpace()
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting

With Selection.Find
.text = " "
.Replacement.text = "^s"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub

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Hope it will help.

This was a novel attempt at spam, but quite obvious to Site Staff. :2cents:

It's being left simply due to the fact that it's an unusual question: How to keep text on a single line, and disallow with-space terms from wrapping to a new line. I cannot imagine when such a need would arise, but I'll keep it handy just in case things change.

Hyphenated terms also wrap automatically, but there may be a disable that. If not, then I can for sure see the needs (mostly for OCD reasons) to non-wrap hyphenated.

The non-link (ie, no SEO for you!) was left, but method #1 (reason it's bolded) is want I'd do: the NBSP. Anybody familiar with HTML coding will know what that is. Usually, you just hit SHIFT+SPACE. Word seems to requires CTRL+SHFT+SPACE.