You need to keep the hyphenated words together by replacing the regular hyphen with a non-breaking hyphen. You can easily replace the word “section” with the section symbol using search and replace.

Your document is over 50 pages, and there are numerous references to various sections throughout. The section symbol is a pair of overlapping “S” characters and is often used in legal documents to reference a numbered section in a document. You have been asked to replace the word “section” with the section symbol. Let’s say there is a lengthy legal document that you need to edit.To understand when searching and replacing special characters may be useful, let’s look at some examples. When Is Searching and Replacing Special Characters Useful?