Word should have an option for automatic word division by default.

[Miguel Megias]

I don´t see any means of making Word have, by default, automatic word
division. When, tired of manually selecting, every time I build a new
document, "automatic word division", I looked in the help, but I get no
useful answers...
Please, make it possible to have automatic word division by default...

A desperate user!

Miguel Megias

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What happens if you open Normal.dot directly and check the box for
"Automatically hyphenate document"?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I don´t see any means of making Word have, by default, automatic word
division. When, tired of manually selecting, every time I build a new
document, "automatic word division", I looked in the help, but I get
no useful answers...
Please, make it possible to have automatic word division by default...

A desperate user!

Miguel Megias

Hi Miguel,

You can make this change yourself.

Find out where your Normal.dot template is stored. Look in Tools > Options >
File Locations and find the folder shown as the User Templates folder. Then
go to the File > Open dialog, set "Files of type" to "Word Templates",
navigate to the templates folder, and select Normal.dot to open.

Go to Tools > Language > Hyphenation and check the "Automatically hyphenate
document" option. Close the dialog.

In the main part of the document, type a space character and delete it. That
makes Word think that something has changed and that Normal.dot needs to be
saved. Then use File > Save, and close Word.

From now on, all new documents will have automatic hyphenation turned on.