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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Inserting Protected Spaces, Hyphens and Conditional Separators</title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3155364"><bookmark_value>protected spaces;inserting</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>spaces; inserting protected spaces</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>hyphens;inserting custom</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>conditional separators</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>separators; conditional</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>dashes</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>non-breaking dashes</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>replacing;dashes</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>protected dashes</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>exchanging, see also replacing</bookmark_value>
</bookmark><comment>mw made "protected dahes;..." a one level entry and inserted a "see also" cross-reference.</comment><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155364" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="30"><variable id="space_hyphen"><link href="text/shared/guide/space_hyphen.xhp" name="Inserting Protected Spaces, Hyphens and Conditional Separators">Inserting Protected Spaces, Hyphens and Conditional Separators</link>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156136" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="61">Non-breaking spaces</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147008" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">To prevent two words from being separated at the end of a line, press the <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command key 
</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl key</defaultinline></switchinline> when you type a space between the words.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146957" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="62">Non-breaking dash</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148538" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">An example of a non-breaking dash is a company name such as A-Z. Obviously you would not want A- to appear at the end of a line and Z at the beginning of the next line. To solve this problem, press Shift+Ctrl+ minus sign. In other words, hold down the Shift and Ctrl keys and press the minus key.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3163802" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="65">Hyphen, dash</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="66">In order to enter longer dashes, you can find under <emph>Tools - AutoCorrect</emph>
<emph>- Options</emph> the <emph>Replace dashes</emph> option (only on Windows systems). This option replaces one or two minus signs under certain conditions with an en-dash or an em-dash (see <link href="text/shared/01/06040100.xhp" name="$[officename] Help">$[officename] Help</link>).</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153561" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="67">For additional replacements see the replacements table under <emph>Tools - AutoCorrect</emph>
<emph>- </emph><link href="text/shared/01/06040200.xhp" name="Replace"><emph>Replace</emph></link>. Here you can, among other things, replace a shortcut automatically by a dash, even in another font.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153825" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="63">Definite separator</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154306" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="60">To support automatic hyphenation by entering a separator inside a word yourself, use the keys <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command 
</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+minus sign. The word is separated at this position when it is at the end of the line, even if automatic hyphenation for this paragraph is switched off.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151245" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="64"><link href="text/shared/01/04100000.xhp" name="Special characters">Special characters</link></paragraph>
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