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Turning Off Paragraph Hyphenation

Summary: How to ensure that Word doesn't hyphenate a certain paragraph. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 6, Word 95, Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)

The hyphenation tool provided with Word can be very handy when creating a document. There may be some paragraphs, however, in which you don't want Word to hyphenate words. You can turn off hyphenation for selected paragraphs by following these steps:

  1. Make sure the insertion point is located in the paragraph you don't want to hyphenate.
  2. Choose Paragraph from the Format menu. Word displays the Paragraph dialog box.
  3. Make sure the Line and Page Breaks tab is selected. (Click here to see a related figure.) In Word 6 and Word 95 it is the Text Flow tab.
  4. Ensure the Don't Hyphenate check box is selected.
  5. Click on OK.

Now, when you choose to do an automatic hyphenation, all the paragraphs formatted for no hyphenation are skipped, and only those paragraphs that are not formatted that way are hyphenated. If you use styles, of course, you can make this even easier by setting up some sort of paragraph style that has the hyphenation setting turned on or off according to your needs.

Tip #916 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003


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