How to stop words reaking at end of a line?

G

Guest

Word keeps breaking the words at the end of a line and finishing them on the
next line. I want it to move the entire word to the next line. I've never
had to set this up before. I thought it was a default.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

This usually indicates document corruption. If you have Word 2003, use the
Open and Repair option (click the arrow beside Open in the Open dialog). For
other versions, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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J

Joe McGuire

You might want to check one of those documents to see if Hypenation is
turned on. Go to Tools, language, Hyphenation. If so, just turn it off.
(The default, though, is no hyphenation)

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S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

This is not a hyphenation issue, as words do not break at hyphenation points
and no hyphen is inserted. This happens (generally) when Word gets confused
about what sort of language or font it's dealing with. If it becomes
convinced that the font is "decorative" (like Wingdings) or the language is
Asian, then it thinks the text stream can be broken anywhere.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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G

Guest

I'm realizing I have some sort of Asian language thing going on. How do I
get rid of it? Also, when I tried to change the font, it becomes all
squares... I've never had any of this happen before.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

You'll need to disable any Asian language support you have enabled. There
are instructions for this in the KB article “Margin marks or crop marks
appear on each corner of the page when you open a document in Word 2002 or
in Word 2003†at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=839371

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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