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Note: The following bug is fixed at least since version 1.66 of bibtex4word.

Bibtex4word version 1.55 and probably previous versions have a bug that incorrectly translates the tilde character in URLs to a non-breakable space. In order to introduce a short fix to this issue, you can open the Bibtex4Word module in the Makro editor of MS Word and introduce the following changes:

For version

Const Version = "$Id: Bibtex4Word.vba,v 1.55 2008/04/21 20:31:18 dmb Exp $"

wrap the statement at line 1754

1754 outtext = Replace(outtext, "~", Chr(160)) ' insert non-breaking spaces

with the following if-clause:

1754 If (outformat And UrlFormat) = 0 Then
1755   outtext = Replace(outtext, "~", Chr(160)) ' insert non-breaking spaces
1756 End If

This prevents URLs like "http://example.com/~user" to be incorrectly transformed to "http://example.com/ user"