Although manual hyphenation may not be "easier," I find it much more
satisfactory, especially if you want minimal hyphenation and complete
control. I never use automatic hyphenation.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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To have Word do hyphenation for you, go to Tools Language Hyphenation
and
check the box for "Automatically hyphenate document". When you click OK,
Word
will look at the word that starts near the end of each line and compare it
to
the words in its built-in hyphenation dictionary. If *not* hyphenating
would
force the word to the next line, and there's a hyphenation point that will
let the first part of the word fit, then it will insert a "conditional
hyphen" character there.

In the dialog, you can set the width of the hyphenation zone, the area at
the end of the line within which hyphenation is considered. You can also
tell
Word that you dont' want it to put in hyphens on more than, for instance,
three consecutive lines.

If you want to do hyphenation manually, you can insert a conditional
hyphen
by holding the Ctrl key while you press the hyphen key. This character is
invisible unless the word breaks at the end of the line (or if you turn on
nonprinting character display with the ¶ button). I would *not* consider
this
to be easier than automatic hyphenation. It may be necessary if the word
isn't found in the hyphenation dictionary.

--
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org


"r" wrote:

can any one explain to me how to hyphenate a word.. and how does the
hyphenation option helps ? isn't it easier to hyphenate a word manually?

please help