Keeping a hyphenated word together in Microsoft Word

One of my coworkers pointed out another Microsoft Word trick involving keeping words together on the same line. In this case, it’s if you want to keep a compound word (two words separated by a hyphen) together on the same line so it doesn’t appear to be a single word broken at the end of the line with a hyphen. Here’s how you do that…

In this example, I’m using the compound word “ultra-pasteurized”. The word showed up at the end of the line, and Word treated it like a hyphenated single word:

To prevent that, I put the hyphen into the document using CTRL+SHIFT+-. This tells Microsoft Word to keep the entire compound word together on a single line instead of putting a line break in there:

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