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Inserting Hyphens

If a word doesn’t fit at the end of a line, you can set hyphenation options to hyphenate the word to display partly on one line and partly on the next line, or move the word to the beginning of the next line. You can set options to automatically or manually hyphenate words in a document, and to specify the maximum amount of space allowed between a word and the right margin without hyphenating the word. When you manually hyphenate a document, Word searches the text for words to hyphenate and asks if you want to insert a hyphen in the text. You can also manually insert an optional or nonbreaking hyphen. An optional hyphen is a hyphen that you specify where you want a word to break if it falls at the end of a line. A nonbreaking ...