how to keep all letters of a word together in a single line

[Guest]

I opened an old file of mine and was working on it when all of sudden the
document changed subtely and all of the words on the edges of the paragraphs
were broken. So that, a word "solution" that was the last of word of a line
was broken into "Solut" which stay on the line and the remaining letters
"ion" appeared on the next line. Every single words at the edge of the
paragraphs were like that. Does anybody know how to fix this mess?

 

[Opinicus]

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I opened an old file of mine and was working on it when all
of sudden the
document changed subtely and all of the words on the edges
of the paragraphs
were broken. So that, a word "solution" that was the last
of word of a line
was broken into "Solut" which stay on the line and the
remaining letters
"ion" appeared on the next line. Every single words at
the edge of the
paragraphs were like that. Does anybody know how to fix
this mess?

It *sounds* like you turned automatic hyphenation on.
(Except that "solution" should be hyphenated before the
"t".) Try this:

Tools > Language > Hyphenation

And if there's a check mark before "Automatically hyphenate
document", remove it then click OK.

There may be a keystroke combination that toggles
hyphenation and you may have inadvertently activated it.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This will happen when Word does not recognize the document font as one used
for text. If the font is coded as a "decorative" or "symbol" font (like
Symbol or Wingdings), Word thinks it can break lines anywhere. Do you still
see this problem if you select the entire document and apply Times New Roman
or Arial?

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

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