#Microsoft word hyphenation turn off how to#

By selecting Automatic you are asking Word to identify and insert hyphenation without your input.By selecting None you turn this function off within your document and if a word does not fit onto a line in its entirety then it will be moved to the next line.Microsoft Word has three (3) options available for hyphenation: None Automatic or Manual. You can see Word has created two (2) hyphens.

Here is an example of the first paragraph of this post when I set hyphenation to automatic in Microsoft Word. When no hyphenation is used the word would automatically be moved down to the next line however when hyphenation is being used the word is instead split at the first syllable and a hyphen, or dash, is inserted to show a connection between the first part of the word and the next line. Hyphenation is used to split words into segments where the word may not fit entirely on a single line.

#Microsoft word hyphenation turn off how to#

Users may not realise what is happening within their document is referred to as hyphenation and therefore donвЂ™t know how to find a quick answer to fix it.

Unfortunately, this issue occurs and is asked frequently due to confusion in terminology. A common question I hear is вЂњwhy are my words breaking across separate lines with a dash connecting them?вЂќ ItвЂ™s a common question on discussion boards online and thankfully itвЂ™s a very simple fix.