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[email protected] LadyDungeness@Fish.Net is offline
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Default Hyphens won't break!

Yes, Robert; I turned off "automatically hyphenate". But normally, a hyphenated word like

third-party plaintiff

will break at the hyphen if needed. Also, the M-dash normally breaks, so that

tortfeasor--the person responsible--will be liable

will also break at the end of the M-dash.


THESE breaks are not happening! How can I get them to break again? Without turning on "auto hyphenate" which does not work
well for legal documents.


Lady Dungeness
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:36:56 +0200, Robert wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:26:14 -0700, wrote:

Word 2002 here. I have a document where the hyphens will not break. They act like non-breaking hyphens, but they are not!
If I delete the hyphen and then type it in again, it still won't break. I want hyphenated words to break. How can I make
that happen?


Have you tried switching off "Automatically hyphenate the document" in
"Tools" "Language" "Hyphenation"?
HTH.
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Robert