strange hyphenation
Okay, I'm back with (mostly) good news. It turns out that the first MVP who
tried this couldn't reproduce it because the error does not occur in English
(UK), only in English (US). I've now had reports from several other MVPs who
*can* reproduce it, and they've come up with some workarounds that may help:
1. The first line of attack is to format "Christ" as "Do not check spelling
or grammar." This will prevent it from being hyphenated.
2. There are several ways to do this. The most direct, of course, is just to
select the word, go to Review | Proofing | Set Language, and check the box
for "Do not check spelling or grammar." Needless to say, this would be
ridiculously cumbersome.
3. One alternative possibility would be to use Find and Replace, upon
completion of a document, to search for "Christ" and apply the "Do not
check..." formatting. Still less than satisfactory.
4. You can define a character style as "Default Paragraph Font + Do not
check spelling or grammar" and apply it to every instance of "Christ." If
you assign a keyboard shortcut to the style, you can apply it fairly
quickly, but this is still less than optimal.
5. Now, however, the pièce de résistance, a way to completely automate the
process:
a. Define the "No Proofing" character style and apply it to "Christ."
b. Select "Christ" and go to Office Button | Word Options | Proofing |
AutoCorrect Options. "Christ" should already be in the "With" box.
c. Select the radio button for "Formatted text."
d. In the replace box, type "christ" (lowercase).
e. Click OK.
Now whenever you type "christ," you'll get "Christ," formatted with the No
Proofing style, and it will not be hyphenated regardless of where it occurs.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"RCUSWALK" wrote in message
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I am having a rather strange problem with Word 2007. When the word "Christ"
comes at the end of a line, Word hyphenates it as "Chr-" on one line and
"ist" on the next. This makes no sense since monosyllabic words are never
hyphenated.
I've tried disabling the spelling, etc., that was recommended for others,
but it has no effect. Word does this in every document and with any/every
font. The only thing that works is to disable hyphenation for the entire
document, which is not really an option for me.
I have not found Word to hyphen any other single syllable words in this
way.
Being a minister and seminary professor, the name of my Savior comes at
the
end of a lot of lines. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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