Why does Word split a word rather than put it on the next line?

P

pants

When I am typing a Word document, when a word doesn't fit on the end of a
line, instead of taking the whole word onto the next line it splits the word
so part is on the first line and the rest is on the next line. I must have
formatted something, but I don't know what. Please help!
 
D

Douglas J. Steele

I'd suggest asking this in a newsgroup related to Word.

This newsgroup is for questions about Access, the database product that's
part of Office Professional.
 
K

Kernow Girl

On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
Select the Automatically hyphenate document check box.
In the Hyphenation zone box, enter the amount of space to leave between the
end of the last word in a line and the right margin.
To reduce the number of hyphens, make the hyphenation zone wider. To reduce
the raggedness of the right margin, make the hyphenation zone narrower.

In the Limit consecutive hyphens to box, enter the number of consecutive
lines that can be hyphenated.
 
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