Using manual hyphenation

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With manual hyphenation, you have more control over what is hyphenated and how it is hyphenated. You can select which parts of the document are hyphenated and where a hyphen appears in specific words. This is a huge hassle for a large document, but it does allow you to do a better job than Word might do automatically - Word sometimes hyphenates words in positions that don't look good.

To select manual hyphenation, follow these steps:

   1.   Select the text you want to hyphenate manually. If you want to hyphenate manually the entire document, don't select anything.

   2.   Choose Tools -> Language -> Hyphenation to open the Hyphenation dialog box.

Hyphenation in Word 2003

   3.   Click the Manual button, and Word immediately begins scanning the selection or the document for words to be hyphenated. When such a word is located, Word displays the Manual Hyphenation dialog box.

Manual hyphenation in Word 2003

   4.   To hyphenate the word at a point other than that suggested in the Hyphenate At box, click where you want the hyphen to appear.

   5.   To accept the suggestion, click Yes.

   6.   To skip the word and move on, click No.

   7.   To stop the manual hyphenation, click Cancel.

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Using automatic hyphenation

Using automatic hyphenation

Automatic hyphenation inserts optional hyphens. An optional hyphen is a hyphen that Word uses only when a word or a phrase appears at the end of a line. If the word or phrase moves to a different position because of editing, the optional hyphen is removed.
Skip spelling and grammar check for the selected text

Skip spelling and grammar check for the selected text

Sometimes you need to skip parts of the document during a spell check. E.g., memos and letters can have headings and address blocks with names and other text that slow down the spell checker. Blocks of programming code or foreign words should not be checked for spelling too.
Also you may need to quote words and phrases with mistakes.
Getting to the Point with AutoSummarize

Getting to the Point with AutoSummarize

Word can automatically summarize key points in documents, enabling you to create brief versions of documents that readers can quickly scan. You'll find that AutoSummarize works best on structured documents such as reports, white papers, technical documents, articles, and so forth. AutoSummarize does not work especially well for fiction, correspondence, and other more loosely structured documents.

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