Familiarize yourself with non-breaking spaces

Readers judge your credibility and the value of your message by tiny details.

One tiny detail that tells a lot concerns non-breaking spaces. When entering names like Roger C. Parker, use a software feature called "non-breaking spaces" to keep Roger and C. from appearing at the end of one line, and Parker from appearing at the next. When non-breaking spaces are used, the software will move the entire word group to the next line.

In a similar way, avoid splitting the name of a city and its state, or a month and the day and year that follows.

Often, the only way to avoid trouble is to rewrite the sentence--or a previous sentence, in order to fit the word grouping together on one line.