Hyphenate text written in another language
First make sure that you mark the text to be hyphenated as being in another language.
When you mark text in a publication that is written in another language, you can then use thesauruses, hyphenate, and check the spelling for text in multiple languages.
Notes
- You cannot set WordArt as being in another language.
- You can set the language in merge fields, but the fields will not be spellchecked or hypenated, nor will they be looked up in the thesaurus if the text was selected prior to opening the thesaurus.
- Web form controls marked as being in another language are not spellchecked, but any text associated with them is spellchecked.
- Select the text you want to mark by doing one of the following:
- Highlight a portion of text within a frame.
- Press CTRL+A to select an entire story in connected text boxes.
- On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Set Language.
- In the Language dialog box, under Mark selected text as, click the language you want.
- Click OK.
Note To reset the marked text as being in the default language, immediately click Undo on the Edit menu.
After you have marked the text, do one of the following:
- Click in the text box or table frame that contains the text you want to hyphenate.
- On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
- Select the Automatically hyphenate this story check box.
Note If you select a text box that is part of a story, the text in all the connected text boxes becomes hyphenated as well.
Change where hyphens occur in a word
You may want to control where hyphens occur in a word, especially if the word is long.
- Select the word that contains the hyphen you want to change.
- On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
- Clear the Automatically hyphenate this story box.
- Click Manual.
- In the Hyphenate at: box, do one of the following:
- To add a hyphen, click where you want to place the hyphen, and then click Yes.
- To remove a hyphen, select the hyphen, and then click No.
Change the number of hyphens that Publisher adds
You might want to change the frequency of hyphens in your publication for layout or aesthetic reasons.
- On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
- In the Hyphenation zone box, do one of the following:.
| For | Make the zone |
|---|---|
| A more even right edge | Smaller |
| Fewer white gaps in text | Smaller |
| Fewer hyphens | Larger |
| Fewer short syllables before or after the hyphen | Larger |
Add hyphens for words that can and cannot be separated
You might want finer control over hyphenation in some instances, such as in hyphenated names or technical terms. For this fine control, place the insertion point where you want to insert a hyphen, and then do one of the following:
- For a word that is always hyphenated and can be separated onto two lines, such as "two-thirds," press hyphen (-).
- For a word that is always hyphenated and cannot be separated on two lines, such as "Lydia Brown-Smith," press CTRL+SHIFT+hyphen (-).
- For a word that can be hyphenated, but only when it's necessary to split the word onto two lines, press CTRL+hyphen (-).