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Words breaking when using wingdings

I have converted a document into wingdings but I can see that the words are being broken up. I have tried changing font size and spacing. Office Word 2010. Can anybody help?
A change in font doesn't of itself cause words to be 'broken up'. Are you sure that's what is actually happening and that what you're seeing is not just an increase in character spacing? Also, if there's line-wrapping involved and a single word is too long to fit on that line, it will have to be 'broken' across two lines. Another possibility with line-wrapping is that you have hyphenation activated and, in the Wingdings font, Word now has occasion to hyphenate words it previously didn't need to.
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I'm a little confused by your question. WingDings has a standard space character (ANSCII 0×032 or hex 0×20) just as any other font does. If you switch (e.g. Find & Replace) to a non-breaking aspace (ANSCII 0×160 or hex 0×7F), you will get a small, bullet instead of a blank but that will foul up a paragraph's word wrap by not breaking lines at the words' limits (as it is intended to so). Perhaps you mean that the WingDings space is too wide. If this is the case, then you need to use Find and Replace to switch all standard spaces to a Unicode en space (U+2002), figure space (U=2007), punctuation space (U+2008), thin space (U+2009), hair space (U+200A) or even the no-width zero width space (U+200B).

Three of these are available within Insert, Symbol, More Symbols, Special Characters as,
  • En space
  • ¼ En space
  • No-width optional break
The Character Map utility found within Accessories, System Tools can be used for the remainder. You can also type them directly into Word by typing in the hex digits I've provided above and then tapping Alt+X for Unicode conversion. Example: for a hair space type 200A then tap Alt+X.

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Fonts that are coded as "decorative" (including Wingdings) do not obey the same rules as standard alphabetic fonts, so Word is allowed to break groups of symbols ("words") anywhere. But that is not your biggest problem, which is that you may find that you are unable to convert your document back to readable text. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290978.
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