Text in tables

[Guest]

When I create a table, words divide in odd places, not as they do at the end
of a line in regular text. For example, if the word "Microsoft" were at the
table's right border, it might divide as Microso-ft or Microsof-t. How can I
format text in tables to use either standard hyphenation or no hyphenation
at all? Thanks. --Jon

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Are you using a non-standard font in the table? Some fonts are
internally defined as symbol fonts, and Word doesn't properly
hyphenate text formatted with a symbol font. Does the problem
persist if you change the font to Times New Roman or Arial? You
can turn off automatic hyphenation by clicking on Tools |
Language | Hyphenation | uncheck the "Automatically hyphenate"
box | OK.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note also that Word will break words which are too long to fit in a
(narrow) table cell; the way around this is to either turn on
automatic hyphenation or press Ctrl+Hyphen to insert a conditional
hyphen.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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