Considering the fact that URLs are most often lengthy, you might find yourself in a situation where you want to “wrap” them over more than one line. Up until recently, I have been using a soft-enter (SHIFT + ENTER) to start a new line in a paragraph before the end of the line is reached. The HTML equivalent of a soft-enter is the line-break: <br />.

Where

When it is necessary to wrap a URL over 2 or more lines we make the break in the following places:

• After a : (colon) or a // (double forward-slash)
• After a / (single slash), a ~ (tilde), a . (full stop), a , (comma), a - (hyphen), an _ (underscore), a ? (question mark), a number sign, or a % (percent symbol)
• Before or after an = (equals sign) or an & (ampersand)

How

The correct way to address this is to use a special character called a No-Width Optional Break. This ingenious little character specifies at which point the text could wrap to the next line should it be necessary.

1. Activate the Insert menu, click the Symbol option & select More Symbols…
2. Activate the Special Characters tab
3. Scroll down and select the No-Width Optional Break
4. Click the Insert command button then close the dialog window

References:

1. https://guides.lib.uw.edu/law/wordtips/links
2. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/use-words-no-width-optional-break-character-to-facilitate-wrapping/