[Wylug-help] OpenOffice non-breaking hyphen

[Andreas Erbe]

> The online help says I should, "press Shift+Ctrl+ minus sign. In other
> words, hold down the Shift and Ctrl keys and press the minus key." However,
> this gives me an underscore instead of a hyphen.

Which is because Shift-Minus (not on the numerical keyboard) is the 
underscore. If your keyboard is set to another language's layout, it will 
give you the respective sign. This has nothing to do with OO - and is 
therefore not a bad move ...

>
> Empirically, it appears to be implying that I should use the dash on a
> numeric keypad - but my laptop doesn't have one of those. Any ideas,
> please?

Are you sure? Most laptops I have seen do have one - usually numbers in a 
different colour somewhere on the right hand side of the keyboard, you get 
them by pressing a special key (in the three cases I have just checked it is 
labeled "Fn"). (Sorry for saying this - you might know that ...)

Andreas.