Using manual hyphenation

Word 365
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.   On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Hyphenation and then select the Manual button:

Manual hyphenation in Word 2016

   3.   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 example in Word 2016

   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.

  • To accept the suggestion, click Yes,
  • To skip the word and move on, click No,
  • To stop the manual hyphenation, click Cancel.

See also this tip in French: Utilisation de la coupure de mots manuelle.

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Using manual hyphenation

Using manual hyphenation

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.
Using manual hyphenation

Using manual hyphenation

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.
Using automatic hyphenation

Using automatic hyphenation

Hyphens play two essential roles in writing – they break single words into parts on syllable boundaries (optional hyphens), and they join separate words into a single word (mandatory hyphens). In the Automatic hyphenation mode, Microsoft Word automatically detects syllable boundaries and inserts optional hyphens for words at the end of the line. If you edit the text in a way that the hyphenated word is no longer at the end of the line, Word removes the optional hyphen.