Carol's Corner Office

9. July 2008 by Carol.

As anyone who subscribes to my bi-monthly newsletter knows, I just love saving time and keystrokes.  I am basically lazy and so I try to get things done quickly and easily and without ending up with carpal tunnel syndrome!

Anyway, when I need a non-breaking space in MS Word – you know – when you type a month at the end of a line and you don’t want to separate the month and the day on different lines – I always use the handy dandy default shortcut which is CTRL + SHIFT +  SPACE.

Well I recently purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner for my office and lo and behold it took over that particular keyboard shortcut to pull up one of it’s menus.  I was beside myself!  I need my non-breaking spaces darn it!

Well I puzzled over it for a spell and then I gave up and asked the experts at Wood’s Lounge and as always, I got an answer straight away!   And — I am going to share it with you!

1. Click on Tools | Customize | Keyboard.
2. Select Common Symbols from the list on the left-hand side.
3. Select Non-breaking space on the right- hand side.
4. Now assign it a key combination.  The default CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE is available or you can create your own keyboard combination.

Pretty useful and nifty information to have isn’t it?  Nobody knows everything about MS Office but we’re learning all the time aren’t we?

Tags: common, Ctrl, MS Word, non-breaking, shift, space, spaces, symbols

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