Non-breaking Spaces in Word/OpenOffice Writer

I use LaTeX primarily for all of my printed document preparation, but I have to teach people how to write in Word/OpenOffice Writer, and so it still is interesting to me to find out how to do new things.

I've wondered how to make non-breaking spaces (NBSP) in Word for a long time, but I didn't force myself to actually look it up until recently. Evidently, if you type

Control+Shift+Space

in Word, you generate a NBSP. This same combination works in OpenOffice Writer, but I think only Control+Space is needed.

A non-breaking space tells the Word Processor to never break lines at that spot. That is, a non-breaking space can never end or begin an automatically wrapped line. You should use NBSP's to prevent

• periods at the end of lines that do not terminate sentences
• numbers or bullet-like symbols at the beginning of lines that do not initiate list items

For example,

• Replace "Mr. Jones" with "Mr.(NBSP)Jones"
• Replace "Figure 2" with "Figure(NBSP)2"
• Replace "Table 3.1" with "Table(NBSP)3.1"
• Replace "Equation (5)" with "Equation(NBSP)(5)"
• Replace "over there – in the hallway" with "over there(NBSP)– in the hallway"

That's how the big publishers do it. However, you never notice it because it's so subtle; when it's done right, you won't notice it at all.