no paragraph break with hyphen

[Guest]

Hello. I'm a grad student and required to use APA Style for all my papers.
SIGH.

Is there a way to format word so that the hyphens AUTOMATICALLY don't split
at the end of the page? Here are some examples of my issue.

WRONG:
"... otional exhaustion and fatigue. The most popular patterns for coping
and self-care
were pleasure reading, exercise, hobbies, vacations, peer supervision,
prayer or ..."

RIGHT:
"... emotional exhaustion and fatigue. The most popular patterns for coping
and self-care were pleasure reading, exercise, hobbies, vacations, peer
supervision, prayer or ..."

Man, I hope this visual posts correctly. And, fyi, I'm using Times New
Roman. TY

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

You can type a non-breaking hyphen by pressing Ctrl+Shift+hyphen.
You can globally replace regular hyphens with non-breaking
hyphens from the Edit->Replace menu.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Garfield has addressed the part of your question that might refer to actual
hyphen characters. I suspect you're using automatic hyphenation, however.
The standards you cite are one of the reasons I *don't* use automatic
hyphenation but instead insert optional hyphens manually (Ctrl+Hyphen) as
needed. It requires some work to scan the lines for ones that are "loose"
and hyphenate to tighten them up, but it's almost an equal chore to make
sure there are no hyphenated words at the ends of pages (strictly speaking,
the last line of a paragraph shouldn't be hyphenated, either, and preferably
not the first; these standards can be almost impossible to meet, however).

If you prefer to stick with automatic hyphenation, however, you can prevent
a word from breaking by formatting it as "Do not check spelling and
grammar." The easiest way to do this is to create a character style that is
defined as Default Paragraph Font + Do not check spelling or grammar and
then applying that style as needed.

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

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