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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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One more argument for not letting Word deal with hyphenation. I prefer to
turn auto hyphenation off and hyphenate words myself manually (by inserting optional hyphens as required). I don't know what's causing this anomaly, but I'll bug it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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It certainly is strange. There may be another solution but try the following
to increase the hyphenation zone to .4": On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Hyphenation, and then click Hyphenation Options In the Hyphenation zone box, type the amount of space you want (in this case ..4") Hopefully, the increased raggedness at the right margin will be acceptable. "RCUSWALK" wrote: 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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This is a really long shot, but bear with me. I posted the problem in our
private Word MVP NG to see if anyone could reproduce the error. So far no one reports being able to, but one MVP suggested it might be an AutoCorrect issue. Now, without even trying to imagine how such an AutoCorrect entry might have been created in your copy of Word, I find that it is possible to create a formatted AutoCorrect entry to replace "Christ" with "Chr¬ist." So could you please check and see if by any very remote chance there is such an AutoCorrect entry? If so, you can delete it, and that would solve the problem. If not, we're back to square one. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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Autocorrect would have been my suggestion also, but you don't really need
either a character style (though it is more elegant) or a lower case christ as the trigger word. If you can normally remember to use the shift key then use Christ as the trigger word and simply apply the no proofing language option to the word before selecting it as the formatted autotext replacement. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: 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. "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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Have you tested this, Graham? I just took Tony Jollans' word for it that
that wouldn't work--that a character style would be required. I did wonder about the lc, but I guess as long as you're AutoCorrecting, you might as well save yourself the extra effort of capitalizing as well. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Autocorrect would have been my suggestion also, but you don't really need either a character style (though it is more elegant) or a lower case christ as the trigger word. If you can normally remember to use the shift key then use Christ as the trigger word and simply apply the no proofing language option to the word before selecting it as the formatted autotext replacement. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: 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. "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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It works inasmuch as the formatted autocorrect will store and apply the no
proofing attribute, but you will need two copies if to want to correct lower case entry also (four if you want to correct Christ's or christ's). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Have you tested this, Graham? I just took Tony Jollans' word for it that that wouldn't work--that a character style would be required. I did wonder about the lc, but I guess as long as you're AutoCorrecting, you might as well save yourself the extra effort of capitalizing as well. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Autocorrect would have been my suggestion also, but you don't really need either a character style (though it is more elegant) or a lower case christ as the trigger word. If you can normally remember to use the shift key then use Christ as the trigger word and simply apply the no proofing language option to the word before selecting it as the formatted autotext replacement. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: 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. "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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The OP didn't say whether the hyphenation error also occurred with
"Christ's." In fact, since the OP has not returned at all, we may all be talking to ourselves. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... It works inasmuch as the formatted autocorrect will store and apply the no proofing attribute, but you will need two copies if to want to correct lower case entry also (four if you want to correct Christ's or christ's). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Have you tested this, Graham? I just took Tony Jollans' word for it that that wouldn't work--that a character style would be required. I did wonder about the lc, but I guess as long as you're AutoCorrecting, you might as well save yourself the extra effort of capitalizing as well. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Autocorrect would have been my suggestion also, but you don't really need either a character style (though it is more elegant) or a lower case christ as the trigger word. If you can normally remember to use the shift key then use Christ as the trigger word and simply apply the no proofing language option to the word before selecting it as the formatted autotext replacement. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: 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. "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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That's often the way
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The OP didn't say whether the hyphenation error also occurred with "Christ's." In fact, since the OP has not returned at all, we may all be talking to ourselves. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... It works inasmuch as the formatted autocorrect will store and apply the no proofing attribute, but you will need two copies if to want to correct lower case entry also (four if you want to correct Christ's or christ's). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Have you tested this, Graham? I just took Tony Jollans' word for it that that wouldn't work--that a character style would be required. I did wonder about the lc, but I guess as long as you're AutoCorrecting, you might as well save yourself the extra effort of capitalizing as well. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Autocorrect would have been my suggestion also, but you don't really need either a character style (though it is more elegant) or a lower case christ as the trigger word. If you can normally remember to use the shift key then use Christ as the trigger word and simply apply the no proofing language option to the word before selecting it as the formatted autotext replacement. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: 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. "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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In case you are still following this, I just received confirmation from a
contact at Microsoft that this has been filed as a bug. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RCUSWALK" wrote in message ... 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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