Corel X4 - Hyphenated text

[Robert Walters]

I have a large line of text (110 characters) with no spaces in it that I'm trying to fill into a 4"x6" area, with the text wrapping / font size scaling as needed.

The problem is that Corel is breaking up the text at a hyphen leaving a lot of empty white space at the end of the line after the hyphen.

If I remove this one particular hyphen (there are many), then no problem.
I've already checked for hidden (newline) characters.

The "Use Hyphenation" option is unchecked and there is no formatting going on other than the size of the text box itself.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

[Dan Hintz]

Sounds like you need a hard hyphen... hold down <ctrl> when typing in the hyphen, that should prevent a line break (at least it does in Word).

[John Noell]

In X4 it's under Text -> Insert Formating Code -> Insert Non-brealng Hyphen (CtrlShift "-").

[Robert Walters]

The non-breaking hyphen was a good work around, thank you.

Will be a PITA if I have to do that for several documents.
I'll have to test if S&R can insert a non-breaking hyphen.


I just wanted the text to reflow/scale as if it's all the same char when resizing the textbox, not hyphenate on specific chars.