How do you stop words from being split across two lines in Word 2010?

Anonymous
2010-08-10T23:06:00+00:00

Help please, have installed Word 2010 and cannot work out why the words get split at the end of a line, leaving half the word on one line and the other half getting pushed onto the next.  Any ideas much appreciated!

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Anonymous
2014-11-26T10:34:35+00:00

The same problem with Microsoft Word can be solved by the following steps:

1- Close Word

2- Navigate to Start->Programs->Microsoft Office->Microsoft Office Tools->Microsoft Office Language Preference

3- Add Japanese

4- Open Word

5- In right Click menu: Select Paragraph...

6- Go to the "Asian Typography" Tab.

7- Deselect: "Allow Latin text to wrap in the middle of a word"

8- Click OK

The problem will be solved. Now if you don't want to have Japanese you can remove it from:

Start->Programs->Microsoft Office->Microsoft Office Tools->Microsoft Office Language Preference

Good Luck!

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Anonymous
2013-03-26T01:12:39+00:00

I have found the solution (a little late, yes, but useful nowadays since no one was able to figure it out). It has to do with the Japanese language support (I don't know why, but it is like that). I found the solution here: http://www.mraggarwal.com/2007/05/11/powerpoint-word-wrap-splitting-words-down-the-middle/ I hope it helps to the people having this issue and I also hope that Microsoft takes a look at this weird issue.

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Anonymous
2010-08-11T08:23:35+00:00

Word should not split words like that. It suggests a serious bug with the printer driver. Try switching printers or updating your existing printer driver.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-04-05T02:37:46+00:00

    Highlight all the text, then choose a different style.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-05T00:20:03+00:00

    This unbelievably stupid that this program does this automatically to imported documents. Having a line end with half of the word does not happen EVER!!! So why the HECKAROONI,  IS IT AUTOMATIC FOR THIS PROGRAM?  Literally have never seen this happen on any SOFTWARE for over 10 years.  All other programs know to keep words together for ease of understanding.. THIS CHAT IS AUTOMATICALLY BRINGING MY WORD DOWN TO NEXT LINE.  WHY CAN'T YOUR MUCH MORE ADVANCED WORD 2016 DO THE SAME THING?!?!?! So ridiculous. I tried everything to get this to do it for me, on new document it does it perfect. But I imported this document and it looks like a jumbled mess with words trailing o ff end of sentence. (example is word off in previous sentence.)

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