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Improving the Layout with Hyphenation

Sometimes the ragged right edges of left-aligned paragraphs look way too uneven. And sometimes justified paragraphs can contain big white spaces between words, especially in columnar text. You can easily repair these common problems by having Word automatically hyphenate the document.

Set Automatic Hyphenation

1. On the Page Layout tab, click the Hyphenation button, and choose Automatic from the gallery that appears.

2. If you don’t like the way Word hyphenates, click the Hyphenation button again, and choose Hyphenation ...