Improving the Layout with Hyphenation

Sometimes the ragged right edges of left-aligned paragraphs look way too uneven. And sometimes justified paragraphs can contain big white spaces between words, especially in columnar text. You can easily repair these common problems by having Word automatically hyphenate the document.

Set Automatic Hyphenation

  1. On the Page Layout tab, click the Hyphenation button, and choose Automatic from the gallery that appears.

  2. If you don’t like the way Word hyphenates, click the Hyphenation button again, and choose Hyphenation Options from the gallery to display the Hyphenation dialog box.

  3. Specify whether or not you want to allow hyphenation of capitalized words.

  4. Specify the maximum distance between the end of the last word and the edge of the column.

  5. Specify whether you want to limit the number of consecutive end-of-line hyphens. (In many books, including this one, a limit of two consecutive end-of-line hyphens is customary.)

  6. Click OK.

    Set Automatic Hyphenation
    Set Automatic Hyphenation

Tip

Tip

If you want to use automatic hyphenation in a document but want a few specific paragraphs to remain unhyphenated, create and use a separate paragraph style (or use direct paragraph formatting) for those paragraphs, making sure that, on the Line And Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box, you’ve selected the Don’t Hyphenate check box.

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