I need to disable automatic word breaks in some words. E.g., there's a
"material" word somewhere in text. I want this word never to be broken as
"mate-rial", but it should be breakable in any other position ("ma-terial",
"materi-al" etc).

I also don't want to deny automatic word breaking.

How can I do this? Can macroses or field codes help me?

Thanks,

Andrew

Turn off automatic hyphenation: On the Tools | Language | Hyphenation.
Clear the "Automatically hyphenate document" option and click OK. To
insert a soft hyphen, just press Ctrl+Hyphen. Those hyphens will only
print when the hyphenated word is at the end of a line. You can show
them, though, by clicking the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Andrew" wrote in message
...
I need to disable automatic word breaks in some words. E.g., there's
a
"material" word somewhere in text. I want this word never to be
broken as
"mate-rial", but it should be breakable in any other position
("ma-terial",
"materi-al" etc).

I also don't want to deny automatic word breaking.

How can I do this? Can macroses or field codes help me?

Thanks,

Andrew

A different approach, which automates things a little is the
following: In the Hyphenation dialog box, click the Manual button. For
each word at the end of a line, Word will suggest "hyphenation points"
which you can accept or reject; soft hyphens are inserted where you
want to allow hyphenation. This semi-automatic hyphenation is best
done after you've finished editing the document.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
Turn off automatic hyphenation: On the Tools | Language |
Hyphenation.
Clear the "Automatically hyphenate document" option and click OK. To
insert a soft hyphen, just press Ctrl+Hyphen. Those hyphens will
only
print when the hyphenated word is at the end of a line. You can show
them, though, by clicking the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Andrew" wrote in message
...
I need to disable automatic word breaks in some words. E.g.,
there's
a
"material" word somewhere in text. I want this word never to be
broken as
"mate-rial", but it should be breakable in any other position
("ma-terial",
"materi-al" etc).

I also don't want to deny automatic word breaking.

How can I do this? Can macroses or field codes help me?

Thanks,

Andrew

Stefan's answers seem to suggest there is no way to do this without turning
off automatic hyphenation (which is what I would have expected). I
personally do all hyphenation manually and do not find it onerous; it cuts
down on excessive hyphenation and gives me complete control.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Andrew" wrote in message
...
I need to disable automatic word breaks in some words. E.g., there's a
"material" word somewhere in text. I want this word never to be broken as
"mate-rial", but it should be breakable in any other position
("ma-terial",
"materi-al" etc).

I also don't want to deny automatic word breaking.

How can I do this? Can macroses or field codes help me?

Thanks,

Andrew

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Stefan's answers seem to suggest there is no way to do this without turning
off automatic hyphenation (which is what I would have expected).

Yes, this is what I was trying to say (though I could have expressed it more
clearly).

I
personally do all hyphenation manually and do not find it onerous; it cuts
down on excessive hyphenation and gives me complete control.

Yes, since automatic hyphenation sometimes produces bad results, it is wise
to hyphenate manually.

On the other hand, I'm not quite familiar with the rules that apply to
hyphenation in English, so if I wanted to hyphenate English text, I would
have to rely on automatic hyphenation (or look it up in specific
dictionaries, which I may be too lazy to do...).

For Swedish text, a problem is that some words are spelled differently when
they are hyphenated; for such words, inserting soft hyphens wouldn't be
possible. For an example, consider "tillämpa", which means "apply".
"Tillämpa" is actually hyphenated "till-lämpa" with three letters L!
Sometimes, but not always, automatic hyphenation can handle these cases of
different spelling.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Andrew" wrote in message
...
I need to disable automatic word breaks in some words. E.g., there's a
"material" word somewhere in text. I want this word never to be broken as
"mate-rial", but it should be breakable in any other position
("ma-terial",
"materi-al" etc).

I also don't want to deny automatic word breaking.

How can I do this? Can macroses or field codes help me?

Thanks,

Andrew

I can remember at least one case in some previous version of Word of an
English word (don't remember what it was) that Word marked as misspelled if
you inserted an optional hyphen. That was truly bizarre!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Stefan's answers seem to suggest there is no way to do this without
turning
off automatic hyphenation (which is what I would have expected).

Yes, this is what I was trying to say (though I could have expressed it
more
clearly).

I
personally do all hyphenation manually and do not find it onerous; it
cuts
down on excessive hyphenation and gives me complete control.

Yes, since automatic hyphenation sometimes produces bad results, it is
wise
to hyphenate manually.

On the other hand, I'm not quite familiar with the rules that apply to
hyphenation in English, so if I wanted to hyphenate English text, I would
have to rely on automatic hyphenation (or look it up in specific
dictionaries, which I may be too lazy to do...).

For Swedish text, a problem is that some words are spelled differently
when
they are hyphenated; for such words, inserting soft hyphens wouldn't be
possible. For an example, consider "tillämpa", which means "apply".
"Tillämpa" is actually hyphenated "till-lämpa" with three letters L!
Sometimes, but not always, automatic hyphenation can handle these cases of
different spelling.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Andrew" wrote in message
...
I need to disable automatic word breaks in some words. E.g., there's a
"material" word somewhere in text. I want this word never to be broken
as
"mate-rial", but it should be breakable in any other position
("ma-terial",
"materi-al" etc).

I also don't want to deny automatic word breaking.

How can I do this? Can macroses or field codes help me?

Thanks,

Andrew