I want to include a URL in word document, both as text people can read, and a link they can click. The URL has a hyphen in it. I don't want the URL to get broken across lines.
When I use a regular hyphen, the link works, but the text displayed gets broken.
When I use a non-breaking hyphen (Ctrl+Shift+-) Word removes the hyphen from the link.
When I try and manually edit the hyperlink, I can't add a non-breaking hyphen into the Text to display field using Ctrl+Shift+-.
If I was writing this is HTML I could just do:
<a href="http://www.my-link.com/">www.my‑link.com</a>
How do I get Word to do the equivalent?
Best Answer
I have an older version of Word but it has the same problem. I was able to workaround the limitation by holding down the Alt key and typing
030on the numeric keypad then releasing the Alt Key at the spot I wanted the non-breaking hyphen. Afterwards I had to manually select and make the displayed text into a hyperlink with the properhrefvalue. It may also be necessary or helpful to turn off the Auto-Formatting of Hyperlinks in Auto-Correct Options.