Of the available special characters, there are a few that are especially useful for specifying

how words or phrases should wrap between lines of text if they fall at the end of a line. The
following table describes each of these and provides a description of the formatting mark
that’s displayed for each when you click the Show/Hide ¶ button on the Home tab.

Character Description Formatting mark

Optional Hyphen An optional hyphen is displayed only when part of hooked hyphen (¬)
the text wraps to the next line. If the text remains
on the same line, the hyphen doesn’t appear.
Nonbreaking Keeps text before and after the nonbreaking long hyphen(–)
Hyphen hyphen together on the same line.
Nonbreaking Space Keeps text before and after the nonbreaking space small raised circle (°)
together on the same line.

TIP The formatting marks for an em space and en space are also displayed as a small raised
circle, but extra space is added to the left of the symbol for an en space and extra space is
added to the left and right for an em space. A 1/4-em space is shown as a vertical bar (|).

A manual line break, which isn’t in the Symbol dialog box, is another special formatting
character for controlling line wrapping. This type of break is used to force text to start on a
new line without starting a new paragraph. For example, you may have several short lines
that you want to treat as a single paragraph, such as an address. To enter a manual line
break, press Shift+Enter. The formatting mark that represents a manual line break is a right-
angle arrow pointing to the left.

In this exercise, you’ll use the Symbol dialog box to insert a nonbreaking space to prevent a
telephone number from wrapping across multiple lines.

SET UP You need the Newsletter_C document located in the Chapter07 practice file
folder to complete this exercise. Open the Newsletter_C document and then follow the
steps.

1 On the View tab, in the Show group, select the Navigation Pane check box.

2 In the Navigation pane, click New Women’s Shelter. If necessary, scroll to view the
text below the picture.

172    Chapter 7 Editing and composing documents