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

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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

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

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

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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Anonymous

2013-10-13T19:25:41+00:00

Word 2010

Microsoft Office experts, Please:

What if there is no space or hyphen to be made 'hard' using CTRL+SHIFT?

I don't want to turn off hyphenation. But Word is hyphenating an Acronym or terms containing subscripts (e.g. UN was turned into U- N in the next line!) and will not allow me (the "do not hyphenate" is disabled for that word!).

I know that there is a "hyphenate words in CAPS" is unchecked but that doesn't work.

I've tried inserting an equations (thanks so another tip) but it has a different font and also interferes with line spacing.

Will I have to get rid of hyphenation altogether?

Thank you,

Flavio

PS: No, my document is not corrupt and this is not a problem with the printer!!!
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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2013-07-21T13:10:38+00:00

In HTML, only a single ordinary space is honored. If you insert 10 ordinary spaces (using the Spacebar), it will be treated as a single space in Web content. If you need more than one space, you have to use nonbreaking spaces for all but the first. That's why, if you paste the content of emails into Word, you'll often see a space followed by a nonbreaking space between sentences (because the email was written by someone who still habitually puts two spaces between sentences). Stripping these out can be a real pain!

Note, however, that Find/Replace will treat all spaces the same, so you don't have to search for nonbreaking spaces explicitly; you can just search for a space and replace with a space and accomplish the same thing. You can test this: In any document, search for a space and replace with ^s; this replaces all the ordinary spaces with nonbreaking spaces. Now search for a space and replace with a space; all the nonbreaking spaces will be replaced with ordinary spaces.
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