Hyphenation is the use of a hyphen to break up a word when it reaches the edge of a document or container. The picture is an example of hyphenation. As shown in the picture, the word “service” is hyphenated as “ser-vice” because it’s continued to the next line.
How to enable hyphenation in Microsoft Word
By default, hyphenation is set to “None” in Microsoft Word, which prevents automatic hyphenation from occurring. If you want to adjust the hyphenation settings, click the Page Layout tab, choose Hyphenation, and select “Automatic” from the list.
See our hyphen page for help and information with the hyphen and when to hyphenate words.
Conditional hyphen, Dash, Typography terms, Word wrap
