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BrianRFrancis
Copper Contributor
May 08, 2019

Hyphenating at hyphens

Hi,

    It appears that Word 2010 will not take the opportunity to hyphenate a word following a typed hyphen. For example, I would like the word "post-processor" to be split to a new line following "post-" if there is insufficient space on the line. If I use an optional hyphen then the word splits as expected, but then I don't get the hyphen when the word fits on a line.

    Interestingly (well at least for me), the word "processor-post" does get hyphenated following "pro" and "proces", but not unfortunately at the hyphen.

    Hopefully there is a setting or version that will solve this problem.

Thanks,

Brian.

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  • Anga73's avatar
    Anga73
    Copper Contributor
    May 15, 2019

     

    BrianRFrancis does your display settings for 'Always show these formatting marks on the screen' have 'Optional Hyphens' ticked?

     

     

  • ron S.'s avatar
    ron S.
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 05, 2019
    My Word 2010 does work "correctly", as you expect, without any additional intervention. Just type the normal hyphen between the 2 words, they wrap at the hyphen when the words approach the margin of the page. I have to be in "print layout" view. Actually I can't defeat it. Even in Web view it works correctly. The only thing I can think of is that you are not using a hyphen character, but some other character that looks like one.

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