Operation Manual

Figure 73: The Special Characters dialog, where you can insert special characters
Inserting dashes and non-breaking spaces and hyphens
To prevent two words from being separated at the end of a line, press Ctrl+Shift when you type the
space between the two words.
In cases where you do not want the hyphen to appear at the end of a line, for example in a number
such as 123-4567, you can press Shift+Ctrl+minus sign to insert a non-breaking hyphen.
To enter en and em dashes, you can use the Replace dashes option on the Options tab under
Tools > AutoCorrect Options. This option replaces two hyphens, under certain conditions, with
the corresponding dash.
– is an en-dash; that is, a dash the width of the letter “n” in the font you are using. Type at least
one character, a space, one or two hyphens, another space, and at least one more letter. The
one or two hyphens will be replaced by an en-dash.
— is an em-dash; that is, a dash the width of the letter “m” in the font you are using. Type at least
one character, two hyphens, and at least one more character. The two hyphens will be
replaced by an em-dash.
See the Help for more details. For other methods of inserting dashes, see Chapter 3, Working with
Text in the Writer Guide.
Setting tab stops and indents
The horizontal ruler shows the tab stops. Any tab stops that you have defined will overwrite the
default tab stops. Tab settings affect indentation of full paragraphs (using the Increase Indent and
Decrease Indent buttons on the Formatting toolbar) as well as indentation of parts of a paragraph
(by pressing the Tab key on the keyboard).
Using the default tab spacing can cause formatting problems if you share documents with other
people. If you use the default tab spacing and then send the document to someone else who has
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