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Symbols: Insert a Nonbreaking Space in PowerPoint

Typing a space seems simple enough – just press the spacebar on your keyboard. However, what many people don’t realize is that this action only adds a regular breaking space. Occasionally, you may require a specific type of spacing within a sentence. This could be to prevent words from being split across two separate lines. In such cases, it’s important to use appropriate spacing techniques that ensure the text stays legible and easy to understand. One effective way of achieving this is by using a nonbreaking space.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

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Insert a Nonbreaking Space in PowerPoint

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Ten Tips for Cool PowerPoint Charts: PowerPoint Chart Tips 08: Should Charts be Animated?

Charts are something that are often shared between Excel and PowerPoint. While Excel gurus may look down at PowerPoint as far as charting is concerned, there indeed is one charting feature that is not doable as well in Excel, and that is animating charts. OK, an Excel guru somewhere may have said that it’s great that you cannot animate charts in Excel, after all many PowerPoint users create a mess with animation anyway!

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PowerPoint Chart Tips 08: Should Charts be Animated?

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Ten Tips for Cool PowerPoint Charts: Stay Away From 3D Charts

In olden days, you just had to insert a chart in PowerPoint to end up with a 3D chart! Yes, that’s true! To say that such charts looked horrible is an understatement.

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PowerPoint Chart Tips 07: Stay Away From 3D Charts

Tutorial Code: 10 15 08
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Symbols: Insert a Nonbreaking Dash in PowerPoint

Whenever you want to add a dash, you choose from one of the dashes available to type in your keyboard. However, these are normal breaking dashes. Let us imagine that you want to type a date in a format such as 10-10-2023. However, if this date happens to be near the edge of the slide or a text box, part of the date may show up in the next line. The solution is to type in a non-breaking dash that will ensure that the date we explored above stays in the same line without breaking up between two lines.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Insert a Nonbreaking Dash in PowerPoint for Windows

Tutorial Code: 05 05 06
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