Applying Automatic Hyphenation

• If a word at the end of a line of text is too long to fit on that line Word 2010 will move that word to the beginning of the next line rather than hyphenate it. If you wish you can set up Word to automatically hyphenate text.  You can even control the length of the area at the end of a line that will trigger automatic hyphenation, when required.
  

• Open a document called Hyphenation.  The document will look something like the illustration below.  You should see that hyphenation is not active.
  
  
  

• Click on the Page Layout tab and from within the Page Setup group, click on the Hyphenation button.  From the drop down displayed click on the Automatic command.
  
  
  

• The document will now display hyphens at the end of some lines, as illustrated below.
  
  
  

• Before continuing turn off automatic hyphenation by clicking on the Page Layout tab and from within the Page Setup group, click on the Hyphenation button.  From the drop down displayed click on the None command, as illustrated below.
  
  
  

• Close your document without saving your changes.