If you later edit the preceding text and the word does not need to be split, the hyphen does not display.īut you do have to know the rules regrading where you can split the word, and, to me that’s not always obvious. Word only displays the hyphen if it’s needed to split the word over the end of a line. If this is obvious, you can manually insert an Optional Hyphen by pressing Ctrl and – together. However, the rules for where you can split any given word are confusing-to me at least, or maybe I was sick on the day they covered end-of-line hyphenation in English at school! According to the accepted convention, you must only break words at syllable boundaries. This is even more effective in multiple column layouts-let’s be honest, we can all read a fully-justified, hyphenated newspaper column with ease-and even in tables. If adding hyphenation at the end of a couple of lines in a paragraph can reduce the number of lines by only one, then that’s one line you’ve gained for more content. I appreciate that there may be those of you who are already using end-of-line hyphenation, and those of who are firmly opposed to using it under any circumstances but there is no doubt that it can save space in a page-limited proposal scenario. Here’s how to use them.īy Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow (aka Wordman) Keep in mind that you can undo an action if you go too far, or you can click the “Discard All Changes” button to wipe out all your changes and start over.End-of-line hyphenation can save space, especially in page-limited proposals, and Microsoft Word has excellent hyphenation tools. You’ll have to experiment with your image to find what works best. You can click a spot or draw a little bit. Your pointer changes to a pen that lets you highlight the areas of the image you want to keep. Let’s start with the areas we want to keep. We’re going to use both the “Mark Areas to Keep” and “Mark Areas to Remove” tools to fix that. Word also marked part of the tiger (the area behind his head) incorrectly as part of the background. Returning to our example, you can see that Word didn’t correctly mark part of the background-there’s some grass still visible right in front of our tiger’s face. You should now see a new “Background Removal” tab on the Ribbon with a few options: Mark Areas to Keep, Mark Areas to Remove, Discard All Changes, and Keep Changes. Word provides two tools for helping you clean things up.

This Is Microsoft’s attempt at auto-detecting the background of an image.Īs you can see, Word isn’t quite sophisticated enough to accurately pick out the background on most images. Word colors the background the image in magenta everything in magenta will get removed from the image.

How to remove auto hyphenation in word